While the Tutsi and Hutu ethic rivalry seem to be the geneses of the great lakes conflict, there are more sinister players which have benefitted from this on-going conflict. The fact that millions of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has become a theater of state-sponsored systematic extermination of a people--right under the gaze of a supposedly humane international ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been surging through the ...

In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

But in 1959, violence broke out between the Hutu and Tutsi, a conflict that ultimately ended with Rwanda’s independence in 1962. The new government elevated Hutu at the expense of the Tutsi ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...

Why did the M23 militia capture the city of Goma which lies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo? Does Rwanda have ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution ...

In mid-December, peace talks between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) broke down after Rwandan President Paul Kagame elected not to attend an Angolan-brokered meeting with his ...

M23 says its objective is to safeguard the interests of the Congolese Tutsi and ... them against Hutu rebel groups who escaped to the DRC after taking part in the 1994 in genocide in Rwanda ...

Formula 1 says it is closely monitoring the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the context of Rwanda 39;s bid to ...

Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group, Makenga quit school at the age ... Their battle was enmeshed with the 1994 genocide, when Hutu extremists killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.