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This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

GOMA, Congo — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

Rebel forces have been seen in the center of Bukavu, the second largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Sunday, residents told CNN, as the fighters push to expand their ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups. Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a ...

The world often sanitises genocide by using diluted terms like, “conflicts” or “crises.” But no matter the label, genocide remains genocide. To quote the old Latin wisdom,“Qui tacet consentire videtur ...

Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

A local man was part of the liberation of the Czech Republic and brought back a symbol that’s been displayed ever since in a ...

Spectre of far-Right nationalism looms as Germans prepare to cast their ballots Next Sunday, Germany goes to the polls. The federal republic’s most important election since reunification in 1990 ...