The majority of the people in eastern DRC are Tutsis who have strong ties with other Tutsi groups across the border. Tutsis ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In January, the rebel group M23 captured Goma, the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnic Tutsi ...

As part of a book project on the mechanisms of genocide ideology in eastern DR Congo's North Kivu Province, Harvard scholar ...

maintaining that tribal or ethnic conflicts are the primary cause of genocide and instability in the Congo”, argued the Congolese government in a dispatch. While Rwanda and the M23 claim that ...

After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army and a rebel group that Rwanda denies backing. By Elian Peltier and ...

The presidents of Congo and Rwanda have met in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized two ...

At the heart of this crisis lies a complex mix of ethnic tensions, political grievances, and economic exploitation, particularly concerning the DRC’s vast mineral wealth. For years, Rwanda has ...

The lives of millions of people. All are now under the control of the M23 militia and its powerful backer, Rwanda. M23 reigns over a vast territory in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic ...

Rwanda denies providing the M23 with military assistance but says it faces a threat in the DRC's east from the FDLR group, founded by ethnic Hutu leaders involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...