 The Rumangabo-based unit was among the Zairian troops that, in 1984, went to defend the Aouzou Strip in Chad against Ghadaffi's troops.The battalion plunder the city in December 1992.During the First Congo War, Rumangabo was among the harder strongholds that Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo rebels, commanded by Laurent-Désiré Kabila and supported by Rwanda, needed to capture prior to advancing eastwards through the country.