Why did the M23 militia capture the city of Goma which lies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo? Does Rwanda have ...

RWANDA has the best economy in Africa and receives over US$1 billion international grants every year from the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). But wait until ...

We have been here before. In Rwanda in 1994 as the genocide against the Tutsi was being committed and the fighting to end it intensified, the defeated genocidal government, its army and interahamwe ...

The Rwandan genocide saw an estimated one million people ... triggering a rampage by Hutu extremists and the 'Interahamwe' militia. The Tutsi ethnic group made up only a small proportion ...

The capture of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, on Monday, January 27, by the Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes the M23 rebels, has demonstrated everything wrong in the ongoing ...

But is the conflict in eastern Congo a dangerous drama waiting for a spark that will rekindle the ethnic divisions of the past that eventually led to the gruesome death of millions of people?

The resource-rich country, now facing a major rebel attack, has been plagued by conflict for more than 30 years. Around one million refugees from Rwanda, mostly Hutus fearing they would ...

The conflict comes amid rising global tensions after Donald Trump’s election, especially between Washington and Beijing, over ...

Analysis - A shifting political calculus by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, underscoring the importance of African mediators and global partners ...