Opinion
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A high-stakes blame game: DR Congo’s age-old weapon
When a government official seems to spend more time in foreign press briefings in high end hotels and first-class flights than on the ground tackling domestic emergencies, it raises a fundamental ...
Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting
Residents of eastern Congo's second-largest city on Monday surveyed the aftermath of widespread looting that accompanied the ...
Rebels occupy second city in Congo
Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, the government said Sunday, as M23 ...
M23 rebels advance into eastern Congo's strategic city of Bukavu
Bukavu's fall, if confirmed, marks the armed group's most significant advance since it revived a decade-old insurgency in ...
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DR Congo’s government accused Rwanda of seizing its territory
The government acknowledged the deterioration of the security situation in Bukavu and called on the city residents not to leave their houses ...
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Global Double Standards Are Existential Threats to Tutsi in Great Lakes Region
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 ...
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Crisis in Congo: Over 900 dead, nearly 2,900 injured in Goma as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels tighten grip
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 ...
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With fear and fist-bumps, Goma residents greet Congo's M23 rebels again
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 ...
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Protesters attack French, US, Rwandan embassies in DRC
Rwanda has consistently denied the allegation. The group is composed of Tutsi fighters and claims it is battling for the rights of the DRC’s minority Tutsi population. It emerged in 2012 after a ...
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Rwandan-backed rebels enter DR Congo’s Goma in major escalation
Rwandan-backed rebels marched into east Congo’s largest city, Goma on Monday and troops from the east African neighbours exchanged fire over the border in the worst escalation of the long ...
France 2422d
Gunfire heard in DR Congo's Goma as M23 rebels, Rwandan troops close in
"Fighting must stop and dialogue resume," Barrot said. The M23, a Tutsi-led rebel group reportedly backed by Rwanda, briefly captured Goma in 2012 before withdrawing under a regionally brokered ...
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What's the fighting in DR Congo all about?
The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 years, since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Numerous armed groups have competed with the central ...