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 ...

Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in ...

The ongoing insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by M23 rebels threatens to ignite renewed conflict in the ...

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.

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 ...

The March 23 (M23) group, also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army, is made up of Tutsi factions and has been invading its neighbour for more than a decade. Using tactics from Russia’s ...

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 ...

King Charles III went to Auschwitz in January to mark 80 years since the Nazi concentration camp's liberation. The visit followed a tour of Australia, in October, which reignited the debate about ...

The main city has become a battleground since fighters from the Tutsi-led M23 armed group and Rwandan forces entered central Goma on Sunday night after a weeks-long advance through the region.

M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led, Rwandan-backed insurgencies that have brought tumult to Congo since the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda thirty years ago, when Hutu ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Demonstrators attack several foreign embassies in Congo’s capital to protest rebels' advance in the east.