For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs ...

While the Tutsi and Hutu ethic rivalry seem to be the geneses of the great lakes conflict, there are more sinister players which have benefitted from this on-going conflict. The fact that millions of ...

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

To refresh our memories, we turn to Britannica, and the story, “Rwanda genocide of 1994.” Britannica says that in 1994 the majority Hutu population in Rwanda slaughtered “more than 800,000 ...

The ongoing insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by M23 rebels threatens to ignite renewed conflict in the ...

There is a pattern of nations whose difficult histories have resulted in authoritarian governments peddling grievance.

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

In the previous article in this series, we saw the pros and cons of the election process and the road to independence. In this article, the culmination of independence and the new dispensation will be ...

Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...

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

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.