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

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the first Congo war, Rwanda invaded Zaire (now Congo) in pursuit of Hutu ethnic extremists who had fled there after they committed a genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. The 1994 Rwanda genocide ...

He led Rwandan-backed rebel forces during the First Congo War that saw the toppling of Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and the installation of Laurent-Desire Kabila. After Kabila turned on ...

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

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.