Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

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

Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first ...

THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict will continue until somehow the Tutsi and the Hutu resolve a long-standing tribal impulse that has remained a festering and gaping wound for decades.

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...

especially the ethnic Tutsi. (SOUNDBITE OF GUNFIRE) LIVINGSTONE: The soundtrack of fighting is a familiar one to people in this region. Eastern Congo, which is rich in critical minerals ...

The conflict is a legacy of multistate wars that played out in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which as many as 1 million people, mainly of the Tutsi ethnic group, were killed by Hutu ...

After seizing control of Goma, a provincial capital of 2 million people at the heart of a region home to trillions ... the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some 800,000 Tutsi, moderate ...

The Tutsi people were excluded from the Congolese army, prompting them to attempt a government overthrow in 2012—an effort that ultimately failed. The group remained inactive for several years ...