M23 now says it is defending ethnic Tutsis in DRC, whom Rwanda claims are being persecuted by Hutus and former militias responsible for the genocide. Many Hutus fled to DRC after the massacre and ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The AFC/M23 rebel coalition announced late on Monday that it would implement a unilateral ceasefire starting on Tuesday. The ...

Rwanda-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this ...

When perpetrators relate their crimes, he says, 'there is great remorse which often leads to forgiveness'. Rwanda has a long and tortured ethnic history. Its population is 85% Hutu, 14% Tutsi and 1% ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

Thousands poured into nearby Rwanda. The fighting in Congo has connections with a decades-long ethnic conflict. M23 says it is defending ethnic Tutsis in Congo. Rwanda has claimed the Tutsis are ...

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will attend a summit on Saturday as a Rwanda-backed armed ...

A potential clash in Bukavu, located around 200 kilometers south of Goma, could deepen ethnic tensions and involve national armies in open conflict. Burundi's involvement in Congo's complex conflict ...

Much of the international community believes that Rwanda backs the M23 rebels, who claimed to capture the city of Goma in eastern Congo last week. UN experts believe that an estimated 3,000 ...