Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

Every year on April 7th, Rwanda and its friends around the world come together to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi—a day recognised by the UN General Assembly as the International Day ...

The alliance between the Congolese army, MONUSCO, the Wazalendo, and the FDLR has contributed to the increased militarization ...

A planned concert in France has sparked intense backlash for coinciding with the commemoration of the genocide against the ...

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M23 first surfaced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2012. Thirteen years later, the rebel group is stronger than ever. In late 2012, controlling large parts of North Kivu province and ...

In the early hours of October 29, 1996, as families in Cyangugu (now Rusizi) settled in for the night, a sudden barrage of ...

The M23 says it is defending the interests of minority Congolese Tutsis, who say they are discriminated against for their ethnic links to Rwanda’s Tutsi community.

The ethnic Tutsi militants, who have been intermittently fighting the DRC government for years, restarted their rebellion in 2021 and have rapidly captured territory since the beginning of 2025.

Rugamba, who is from Kigali, Rwanda, was a university student in 1994 when militias massacred members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as Hutu and Twa people. In the 100-day genocide that ...

In the late 1990s, The First Congo War broke out, following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide which saw ethnic Hutus kill thousands of people from the Tutsi community and then flee over to neighbouring ...