WHENEVER the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is mentioned, two things come to mind- the first is goldmine and glory, and the second is complete, protracted, and intractable chaos.

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, ...

In 1996, Ottawa supported Rwanda and Uganda as they jointly invaded the eastern Congo (then Zaire) to target Hutu rebel groups who had fled to the country after the Rwandan genocide, effectively ...

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

Thirteen South Africans were killed last month by the most dangerous man in the world: Rwandan president Paul Kagame.

When Belgium’s King Leopold II declared the Congo his personal property in the late 19th century, he unleashed one of history’s most brutal exploitation schemes. Under the guise of ...

For example, Zaire was closely implicated in the genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 ... and interviews with many of the Western players who were party to the third phase of the rape of Congo.

According to this narrative, the conflict began in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and the three groups are now vying for ... The conflict's roots became even more entangled when the ...