Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been surging through the ...

The killer has a connection to the genocide in Rwanda through his parents, who were both Tutsi and were forced to flee the country following the outbreak of mass killings by the Hutu-dominated regime.

Diplomatic sources say the bloc is facing calls to suspend its wide-ranging minerals agreement with Rwanda amid fears it is ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

Rwanda's ally Uganda, unhappy about another rebel group in DR Congo that threatens its security, has also been accused of ...

This conflict has its roots in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which nearly 1 million mainly Tutsis were killed by Hutu extremists. Tutsi rebels, led by current Rwandan President Paul Kagame ...

M23 says it exists to defend eastern Congo’s ethnic Tutsi population from remnants of Rwandan Hutu militias involved in perpetrating Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in which more than one million ...

A spokesperson from the Congolese army did not respond to requests for comment. Like Rwanda, Burundi has sought to heal deep ...