 Amid the other difficulties in building new armed forces for the DRC , in early 2007 the integration and training process was distorted as the DRC government under Kabila attempted to use it to gain more control over the dissident general Laurent Nkunda . A hastily negotiated verbal agreement in Rwanda saw three government FAC brigades integrated with Nkunda 's former ANC 81st and 83rd Brigades in what was called mixage . <unk> brought multiple factions into composite brigades , but without the 45 @-@ day retraining provided by brassage , and it seems that actually , the process was limited to exchanging battalions between the FAC and Nkunda brigades in North Kivu , without further integration . Due to Nkunda 's troops having greater cohesion , Nkunda effectively gained control of all five brigades , which was not the intention of the DRC central government . However , after Nkunda used the mixage brigades to fight the FDLR , strains arose between the FARDC and Nkunda @-@ loyalist troops within the brigades and they fell apart in the last days of August 2007 . The International Crisis Group says that ' by 30 August [ 2007 ] Nkunda 's troops had left the mixed brigades and controlled a large part of the <unk> and Rutshuru territories ' ( of North Kivu ) . 
