Sultani Makenga, the military leader of M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo, has said it was “unacceptable” that the government hired European mercenaries in the ongoing conflict that pitted the Congolese ...

Today, Kagame is president of Rwanda, and he insists on reconciliation between the warring groups. It was an incredible ...

Opinion - For years, whenever Rwanda raises concerns about the security threats from DR Congo, critics dismiss it as paranoia or political maneuvering. Some call it an overreaction; others, in Gen Z ...

For instance, March 23 Movement (M23), a rebel group named on March 23 2009, the date the accord between the National ...

Many more are thought to have arrived in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were slaughtered. But when a Tutsi-led government seized power and ended the ...

After the 1994 atrocities – during which Hutu extremists killed hundreds of thousands of mainly Tutsi people in Rwanda – many Hutus fled Kagame’s new government and settled across the border ...

But the new face of the M23 in the region — Corneille Nangaa — is not Tutsi, giving the group "a new ... has said it was committed to "defending" the people of Bukavu. "We call on the population to ...

When Rev. Marcel Uwineza, S.J., a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, was invited to give remarks at a recent commemoration of the event, he was asked to provide a photo of his ...

The number of people killed in Goma and its surroundings in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has exceeded 8,500 since ...