Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR) is a gouvernment intelligence agency of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The role of the agency is to ensure «internal security and external security » of the state.

ANR was created in the beginning of 1997 as intelligence service of the Alliance des Forces démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL). In May of 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. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In October of 2002, Georges Leta Mangasa, the chairman of ANR was sentenced to death with other persons in the course of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's assassination. Before this, in 2001, the interim president, Joseph Kabila, appointed Kazadi Nyembwe for the chair of the ANR. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Laurent-Désiré Kabila Laurent-Désiré Kabila (November 27, 1939 – January 18, 2001) was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko until his assassination in January 2001. ... Joseph Kabila Kabange (born June 4, 1971), known commonly as Joseph Kabila, became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the assassination of his father Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001. ...

The agency is strongly criticized for the disrespect of human rights by several organisations. ^[1] Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

Notes and references

1. ^ Responses to information requests: Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC38748.FE), Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, 25 March 2002.