THE Alliance Fleuve Congo/M23 rebel movement controlling territory in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says a political solution is the best option to resolve the country’s multi-faceted ...

Some pseudonyms are used to protect the identities of interviewees. “I saw a lot of suffering.” The old man, Lokwi, gestures ...

New mediation must confront the root causes of conflict and include voices long excluded from elite-driven peace talks.

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 ...

Belgium was responsible for the drafting of the haphazard map of the Great Lakes region ... The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has remained the epicentre of instability in the ...

Image: Map of DRC showing Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa Bukavu ... and its government frames the conflict between the DRC and M23 as the defence of ethnic Tutsis in the east of the country from ...

[AFP] An attack by a militia from the Lendu ethnic group has killed 51 people ... The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo tried to intervene to prevent the killings ...

The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference. Soldiers stand on guard in the Lubero ...

Rwanda’s involvement has been fueled by a combination of security concerns, ethnic ties, and regional influence. The relationship between Rwanda and the DRC has been profoundly shaped by ethnic ...

Yet, while such headlines dominate the media, they often fail to address or delve into the root causes of the conflict involving the ethnic Banyamulenge (Congolese Tutsi) and successive DRC ...

or that his troops are in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He says M23 is simply defending the rights of Congo’s minority Tutsis — Mr. Kagame’s own ethnic group, which was the principal ...

The name M23 refers to a March 23, 2009 accord which ended a previous revolt in eastern DRC led by ethnic Tutsis. M23 has accused the DRC government of not living up to that peace deal and fully ...