What happened then?

The first Congo War, from 1996-7. The Hutu militias (Interahamwe), aided for political reasons by the weakening US-backed dictatorship of President Mobutu, started attacking Congolese Tutsis (Banyamulenge) in the states of North and South Kivu in the east. The Tutsis fought back with the support of Rwanda (which feared an invasion from the Hutus), Uganda and Angola, under the leadership of Laurent-D?sir? Kabila, a long-time opponent of Mobutu (but not himself a Tutsi). The war culminated in Kabila marching on the capital Kinshasa, deposing Mobutu, declaring himself president and renaming the country the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).