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 ...

By contrast, the map plots the ethnic element behind the secessionist ... of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Similar convergences of conflict and ethnicity can be seen ...

The group was formed primarily as a result of tension between the Tutsi-majority Rwanda and the DRC. In 1994, Hutu militias in Rwanda committed what was later ruled by the U.N. to be an ethnic ...

Inter-ethnic clashes in Democratic Republic of Congo have sent some 16,000 refugees fleeing for their lives into neighboring Congo-Brazzaville, the U.N. refugee agency reports. The largely dormant ...

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 ...

Pygmies from the ethnic Twa group have been seeking recognition of equal rights with other citizens in the vast, unstable Democratic Republic of Congo, but they regularly come into conflict with ...

But DRC elites are also to blame for the violence Christopher P. Davey’s research into the Banyamulenge – a sub-group of the Congolese Tutsi ethnic group who originally come from the province ...

Today, the DRC is home to 7 million people who have been internally displaced due to extreme violence, threat perception, mine expansion, and poverty. These displaced people urgently need medical ...

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 ...

A deadly insurgency is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country three times the size of Texas that is estimated to hold trillions of dollars’ worth of minerals essential to ...