Recognising the vital role of youth in shaping Rwanda’s future, the Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement launched “Rubyiruko menya amateka yawe (Youth, know your history),” a programme that ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...

The M23 is mostly led by Congolese Tutsi rebels who initially justified their insurgency ... from spoken word poetry sessions to dance spectacles and music concerts. A collective of tireless local ...

Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., was nowhere to be seen in Goma’s Serena Hotel as the bearded Corneille Nangaa, in military fatigues ...

Earlier this week the Tutsi-led M23 rebels seized Goma, the largest city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo – home to lucrative gold, coltan and tin ore mines – before shifting their focus to ...

The conflict can be traced to the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda, where Hutu militias killed between 500,000 and 1 million ethnic Tutsi, as well as moderate Hutus and Twa ...

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 ...

A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million people, a hub for displaced people and aid groups on the border with ...

The rebel group has accused the Congolese government of not upholding a 2009 peace deal that ended a Tutsi-led revolt in eastern Congo. M23 rebels parade through the streets of Goma on Monday as ...

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 ...

Ethnic Tutsi-led M23 rebels enter city of Goma Fighting continues amid conflicting claims about M23 advance Congo and UN accuse Rwanda of sending troops into Goma Conflict stems from Rwanda ...