The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been surging through the ...

For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

This group, named the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), were demanding greater Tutsi representation in Rwanda's government, which at the time was dominated by politicians from the Hutu majority.

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 ...

Among those armed forced – it has long been claimed by Rwanda – there are Hutus who were involved in the killing of Tutsis in the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. In April 1994 hardline Hutu ...

The killer has a connection to the genocide in Rwanda through his parents, who were both Tutsi and were forced to flee the country following the outbreak of mass killings by the Hutu-dominated regime.

It accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says are bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

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

It accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says are bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening Rwanda. Burundi, whose ruling party draws heavily from the ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...