Agence nationale de renseignements

The Agence nationale de renseignements (ANR) is the intelligence service of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The agency's role is to ensure the internal and external security of the state.

ANR was set up in early 1997 as the intelligence service of the Alliance des Forces démocratiques pour la Liberation du Congo (AFDL). In May 1997, the agency integrated the premises of the former Service national d'intelligence et de protection (SNIP), which had been renamed Direction générale de la sûreté nationale (DGSN) in 1996. In October 2002, Georges Leta Mangasa , the head of the ANR, was sentenced to death with others in the Laurent-Désiré Kabila murder trial. Previously, in 2001, the Acting President, Joseph Kabila , appointed Kazadi Nyembwe as head of the ANR. The agency has been heavily criticized by various organizations for its disregard for human rights.

Individual evidence

↑ Procès de l'assassinat de Laurent-Désiré Kabila 115 peines de morts requises. (No longer available online.) In: Afrique Express No. 257. October 17, 2002, archived from the original on May 2, 2003 ; Retrieved September 3, 2014 (French).
↑ RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs). RDC38748.FE. In: Country of Origin Search. Imigration and Refugee Board of Canada / Commission de Imigration et du statut der réfugé du Canada, March 25, 2002, accessed on September 3, 2014 (English).

[express-1] Procès de l'assassinat de Laurent-Désiré Kabila 115 peines de morts requises. (No longer available online.) In: Afrique Express No. 257. October 17, 2002, archived from the original on May 2, 2003 ; Retrieved September 3, 2014 (French).

[2] RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs). RDC38748.FE. In: Country of Origin Search. Imigration and Refugee Board of Canada / Commission de Imigration et du statut der réfugé du Canada, March 25, 2002, accessed on September 3, 2014 (English).