The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.

With mass killings, prison breaks, mass displacement and mystery illnesses, violence has once again become a central issue in ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in minerals.

The order triggered what was to become the first Congo War. Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola began backing the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the liberation of Congo under Laurent-Desire Kabila ...

The regional crisis is therefore metastasizing into a pattern that harkens back to the First and Second Congo Wars that drew in nine African countries, the largest African multinational war ever ...

Yet the war unfolding in the Democratic Republic ... (Rwanda has repeatedly denied any direct involvement in Congo.) This is not the first time the world has overlooked violence in Congo.

Otherwise, the critical minerals consensus is liable to lead us to a 21st-century gold rush or resource war.