The majority of the people in eastern DRC are Tutsis who have strong ties with other Tutsi groups across the border. Tutsis have long seen themselves as victims of the haphazard drafting of borders.

Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide. Each time, they were shunned, ...

An increasingly volatile situation - driven by resurgent incursions by rebel militia groups - is killing and displacing ...

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In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Rwanda’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.

The group's fighters claim they are protecting the rights of the region's ethnic Tutsis. However, the DRC's government has accused Rwanda of supported the rebels in a bid to control land in the area.

Rwanda denies providing the M23 with military assistance but says it faces a threat in the DRC's east from the FDLR group, founded by ethnic Hutu leaders involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of ...

Rwanda announced on Monday it is severing diplomatic ... Kigali has denied involvement in the conflict and says it faces a threat from ethnic Hutu fighters in the DRC. Kigali says Kinshasa is ...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has accused Belgium ... Kigali has denied involvement in the conflict and says it faces a threat from ethnic Hutu fighters in the DRC. The Congolese government ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over their role in invading eastern Congo and plundering its mineral wealth.