The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back to the 1990s Rwandan genocide.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has become a theater of state-sponsored systematic extermination of a people--right under the gaze of a supposedly humane international ...

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

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

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 ...

Tutsi rebels led by current Rwandan President ... War in particular considered to be one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The M23 and Rwandan troops are moving farther into the province ...

Congo's Army and Burundian Allies Slow M23 Rebel's Southern March (Reuters) -Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed ...

It also vows to defend Tutsi interests, particularly against ... which has attacked Tutsis in both countries. Rwanda has a long history of military intervention inside Congo.

The Great Lakes region was destabilised by the Rwanda genocide in 1994. Hutu extremists killed up to 800,000, mainly Tutsi, people in Rwanda. A Tutsi counteroffensive regained control of the ...

The violent clashes unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo stem from a breakdown in talks around the country's army and warring factions - all fighting for control. This week, the rebel ...

Over the years, these Tutsi-led groups have seized provincial border towns like Bukavu and Goma, where M23 rebels marched into on Jan. 27 after a lightning advance that has forced thousands from ...