Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony, in 1916 during the first world war. They got help from nearby ...

Goma/Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo — "Civilians ... led government hunted down Hutu extremists that fled to DRC ...

The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ...

At the root of the current crisis is the 1994 Rwanda genocide which saw bands of ethnic Hutu extremists ... The M23 rebels are largely Congolese ethnic Tutsis, whose fighters seized Goma, eastern ...

Yes, I was in Goma and Kivu last week, but my interest in the region started in 1994, just three weeks before the Genocide against the Tutsi began. I came here as Secretary General of Doctors ...

Democratic Republic of Congo doubled salaries for soldiers and police on Friday, the finance ministry said, in an apparent ...

The M23 armed group took control of Goma's airport on Tuesday ... haunted by the legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and plagued by fighting between armed groups backed by regional rivals in ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The leader ... The conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and competition for mineral riches, is eastern Congo's worst since a 1998-2003 ...

The resurgence of Rwanda-backed insurgents in eastern Congo has reignited a decades-old conflict over ethnic rivalries, ...

GOMA - The leader of a rebel alliance that has ... The conflict in Congo's east is rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and competition for mineral riches. It has spiralled since ...

Alliance fleuve Congo (AFC/M23) rebellion’s coordinator Corneille Nangaa has appealed to the entire DR Congo diaspora to join the cause for liberating the country. On Friday, the rebels allowed the ...