Refugees, exiles, and opposition groups hold the key to lasting peace and regional stability.

1996-1997: Rwanda invaded Zaire to pursue the genocidaires and backed the rebellion that eventually led to the overthrow of the country’s longtime kleptocratic leader, Mobutu Sese Seko.

Rwanda has denied the accusations. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma. ... Tanzania and the former Zaire, ...

Rwanda believes DRC continues to provide refuge for those behind the 1994 genocide. ... Many of the perpetrators of the violence fled to the DRC, at the time called Zaire.

The details of Rwanda’s role in that war, and in a second invasion less than two years later of what by then had been renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been minutely chronicled by ...

July 1994 - RPF seizes control of Rwanda after driving 40,000-strong Hutu army and more than 2 million civilian Hutus into exile in Burundi, Tanzania and what was then Zaire (now Democratic ...

1994-96 - Refugee camps in Zaire fall under the control of the Hutu militias responsible for the genocide in Rwanda.. 1995 - Extremist Hutu militias and Zairean government forces attack local ...

Rwandan refugee children plead with Zairean soldiers to allow them across a bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire where their mothers had crossed moments earlier before the soldiers closed the border ...

Then, Germany, England, and Belgium agreed to reduce Rwanda’s borders, annexing Rwandan territories to the Belgian Congo and Uganda. 1916 In 1916, Germany was defeated militarily by Belgium over ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide on April 7, 1994. A phoenix is rising from the ashes, writes Jonathan M. Hansen.

I arrived in Rwanda for the first time in early May of 1995, a year after the genocide. The country was gutted. Between those who were dead and those who had fled, Rwandans spoke of their country ...

The AFDL, primarily a Congolese movement against the Zaire leadership but receiving significant support from the governments of Rwanda and Uganda, ousted President Mobutu Sese Seko and brought ...