The South African National Defence Force confirmed on 27 January that three more soldiers had been killed in fighting near ...

"But these people are farmers -- the real issue is land ownership." The M23 originally emerged claiming to defend the ...

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 ...

With over 105 million people, the DR Congo is a mosaic of 250 ethnic groups and 700 languages, a testament to its rich cultural diversity. However, in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, ...

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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 ...

Amid the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an estimated 800,000 people—mostly from the Tutsi minority—were slaughtered by Hutu extremists. The genocide ended when a Tutsi-led rebel force, commanded by Paul ...

The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated one million minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in ...

The M23 movement has its origins in the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), a rebel group that claimed to fight for the rights of the Tutsi minority in eastern Congo.

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.