Why did the M23 militia capture the city of Goma which lies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo? Does Rwanda have ...

Rwanda's government, led by President Paul Kagame, has been accused by the DRC and various international organizations of ...

The conflict comes amid rising global tensions after Donald Trump’s election, especially between Washington and Beijing, over ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

A little over a week ago, the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) fell to the Congolese rebel group, M23. The response to its fall by the DR Congo government, the United ...

Between 1996 and 2003 Rwanda and other regional powers fought over the spoils left by the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, who misruled Congo, which he renamed Zaire, from 1965 until 1997.

An attack by a militia from the Lendu ethnic group has killed 51 people in northeastern DR Congo, local and humanitarian ...

David Verkmann examines the timeline and impact of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after rebel group M23 captured Goma.

When Rwanda-backed rebels seized control of eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma this week, it prompted a flurry of declarations condemning Rwanda from the U.N. and western nations ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese city in a bid to occupy territory and exploit minerals. Displaced ...

We have been here before. In Rwanda in 1994 as the genocide against the Tutsi was being committed and the fighting to end it intensified, the defeated genocidal government, its army and interahamwe ...