Muhoozi hails from the Banyankole tribe, also known as Bahima who are cousins to the Tutsi and Banyamulenge. The Bantu-speaking tribes are spread across Western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi ...

Remarkably in the same Kiv region was also a community of ethnic Tutsis known as the Banyamulenge. Between 1995 and 1996, there were episodic large scale fights between the Hutu refugees, the ...

At a meeting with his ruling coalition, Sacred Union, Tshisekedi told the audience he refutes claims by M23 and Rwanda that he has discriminated against the Banyamulenge in the DRC. “We belong to one ...

That being said, experts and organisations like the UN have documented decades of discrimination against Congolese Tutsis and the Banyamulenge - a Tutsi sub-group concentrated in the South Kivu ...

As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals deal with the United States. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Nairobi ...

Additionally, he alleged that Belgium ignored atrocities committed against Congolese Tutsi communities in North Kivu, Banyamulenge in South Kivu, and Hema in Ituri. “When the FARDC and its criminal ...

Reports on Thursday morning indicated that several columns of Congolese soldiers launched attacks on the Banyamulenge community in the village of Gakenke, in the Minembwe area. The sounds of light ...

Seleman Yusuph Kitenge works as a communications and advocacy officer at the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD. He is a specialist in global peace and security, diplomacy and regional ...