As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to ...

The Tutsi-led country’s actions are in the interest of the group living across the border and to prevent the spillover of a civil war, he says. Neighbouring Burundi, a Hutu-majority country that ...

Like Rwanda, Burundi has sought to heal deep divisions between its Tutsi and Hutu populations. Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people ...

It has severed diplomatic relations with neighbouring Rwanda, which supports rebel Tutsi ... local Hutu ethnic group against the Tutsi ethnic group. Then, when the genocide ended and the Tutsis ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian sources said.

The RPF launched an invasion of Rwanda, sparking a civil war that culminated in the 1994 genocide, during which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered by Hutu extremists.

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

Government forces and local militias have clashed south of the provincial capital of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...