In the previous article in this series, we saw how a so-called “Tutsi-based” monarchy was replaced with a “Hutu-based’ republic. The Hutu masses were used as pawns to further the interests of Hutu ...

Did you know that there has never been a single Tutsi armed group in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo before 1995? In this article, we will delve into the historical context of the ...

THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict will continue until somehow the Tutsi and the Hutu resolve a long-standing tribal impulse that has remained a festering and gaping wound for decades.

Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group, Makenga quit school at the age of 17 to join a Tutsi rebel outfit across the border in Rwanda. This group, named the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF ...

Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., was nowhere to be seen in Goma’s Serena Hotel as the bearded Corneille Nangaa, in military fatigues ...

was said to favor the return of the former king, Kigeri Ndahindurwa, ousted in 1961 and now in exile in the U.S. Another genocide survivor accused of encouraging Tutsi soldiers to "desertto the ...

Pressure intensified as Tutsi militias organized against the Hutu groups and as foreign powers began taking sides. Following the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) victory against the genocidal ...

In October 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a movement led by children of Tutsi who had fled the 1959 revolution, attacked Rwanda from Uganda. They claimed they were fighting for the right ...

The current Rwandan government – which seems to be backing M23, an ethnic Congolese Tutsi militia – accuses Congo of colluding with extremist Hutu militias to target the Tutsi community in Congo.

The Great Lakes region was destabilised by the Rwanda genocide in 1994. Hutu extremists killed up to 800,000, mainly Tutsi, people in Rwanda. A Tutsi counteroffensive regained control of the ...

Earlier this week the Tutsi-led M23 rebels seized Goma, the largest city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo which is home to lucrative gold, coltan and tin ore mines. They then shifted their ...