Reiterating that there can be no military solution to the crisis in eastern DR Congo, the UN Security Council, on Friday, February 21, unanimously adopted a resolution that condemns the Congolese ...

As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals ...

Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted. Digging into the ...

Rwanda’s government on Friday asserted solidarity with a top official sanctioned by the U.S. over violence in eastern Congo, ...

As many as six million people died. The conflict can be traced to the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where Hutu militias killed between 500,000 and one million ethnic Tutsi, as ...

The group mainly consists of Tutsi Congolese and has been accused of committing human rights abuses. AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 110 news organizations and over 500 ...

After taking the city, the Tutsi-led rebels were said to be moving toward Bukavu, in South Kivu, but appeared held up on Friday by Congolese troops supported by Burundi's army. Well-trained and ...

M23 is the latest in a series of Tutsi-led rebellions that have emerged in Congo's east since the official end of a string of conflicts between 1996 and 2003 that sucked in most of Congo's ...

Right now, the rebels are marching on Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. Claiming that his own Tutsi people are being threatened within the DRC, Mr. Kagame seeks to control resource-rich lands ...

Goma residents have frequently demonstrated against Rwanda and the M23, the latest in a long line of Tutsi-led rebel movements active in mineral-rich eastern Congo. The group also captured Goma in ...

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 ...