The decades-long support for Rwanda from Germany and the EU has increasingly been sparking protests due to the role played by ...

The order triggered what was to become the first Congo War. Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola began backing the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the liberation of Congo under Laurent-Desire Kabila ...

Rwandan-backed rebels have entered Bukavu, a major city in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

End Congo clash for Africa to move ahead The recent killings of more than 700 people in the Goma region of Eastern Congo are sad memories of the history of wars and instability that continue to rock ...

High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded the Democratic Republic of Congo's "territorial integrity" be respected and a ...

Fred Bauma, a Congolese activist and Director of the Ebuteli Institute, warned that the conflict in eastern DR Congo is evolving into a regional war if it hasn't already reached that stage.

His successor, Laurent Kabila, was also installed by foreign powers. He ruled through the first and second Congo Wars until he was assassinated in 2001. His son succeeded him. A peace deal was ...

ramping up the risk of a return to full-blown regional war. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting ...

and allowed Hutu militias to regroup in eastern Congo, prompting Rwanda and Uganda to invade the region. Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe fought alongside Congolese troops in a five-year regional war ...

The group waged the First Congo War from October 1996 to May 1997 that ended with the overthrow of the DRC’s long-time ruler, Mobutu Sese Seko. Kabila became president. Kagame and Museveni ...