It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region ... and to protect Tutsis, the ethnic group partly extinguished by ...

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 ...

Congolese forces were losing control of the city of Goma on Wednesday after rebel groups backed by Rwanda took over the ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

Rwanda’s involvement has been fueled by a combination of security concerns, ethnic ties, and regional influence. The relationship between Rwanda and the DRC has been profoundly shaped by ethnic ...

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

Rwanda. Author - Suresh Krishna. At the beginning of the colonial period, the territory of present-day Rwanda was inhabited by three ethnic groups: Hutu, Tutsi and Twa. There was a clan system, which ...

These forces, he claimed, were protecting ethnic Russians from persecution ... more bloodshed in eastern Congo Rwanda’s reckless plan to redraw the map of Africa Photo essay: The fall of ...

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

In a rare rebuke of Rwanda, Beijing urged Kigali to heed international ... Washington's envoy to the UN Dorothy Shea called for "ethnic attacks" to end and said "we must not allow (this) to ...

The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as conditions deteriorate in the region, haunted by the legacy of the 1994 ...

Rwanda can count on its digital army on social networks, and the DRC on a few influencers, starting with conspiracy essayist Charles Onana. But is the conflict in eastern Congo a dangerous drama ...