A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

The crisis in Congo can be traced to the Rwandan genocide in 1994 in which about 8,00,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were massacred by ethnic Hutu militias. When tens of thousands of Hutus fled Rwanda ...

Many Hutus, some genocide perpetrators and other refugees, fled into Congo after the genocide. The U.N. has warned that the M23 offensive risks spiralling into a regional war. Kenya said Congo's ...

Why are the rebels, known as M23, grabbing parts of eastern Congo? In their telling, they’re protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide, some of whom also live in ...

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 ...

Kagame accused South African forces of working alongside a militia in Congo with ties to perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and "threatening to take the war to Rwanda itself." "If South ...

The ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has once again underscored the deep-seated complexities of the country’s decades-long crisis. More importantly, it has laid bare ...

The genocide ended with Rwanda's current president, Paul Kagame, leading a force of Tutsu rebels. Many Hutu then fled across the border to the DR Congo. Kagame has called for the need to ...

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 ...

Kagame responded by accusing South Africa of working alongside a militia in Congo with ties to perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and "threatening to take the war to Rwanda itself".