One needs to understand that the effect of the discrimination between the Hutu and the Tutsi, including the creation of the colonial borders on this part of the continent, was so negative that it has ...

Congo and UN experts say neighbouring Rwanda, ruled by a Tutsi-led government, is backing M23. In 2012, shortly after it was founded, M23 seized much of Goma. But it withdrew as Rwanda came under ...

What has been a slow-burn crisis in eastern DRC has again exploded into the open. Kagame appears to have calculated that a ...

More than anybody else, he was responsible for the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, where about 800,000 Tutsis were killed. It is woke to blame all the woes of Africa on European colonialism. I believe ...

Airport, internet, electricity and water cut off," one resident said in a phone message. M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led, Rwandan-backed insurgencies that have roiled Congo since the ...

As many as six million people died. The conflict can be traced to the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where Hutu militias killed between 500,000 and one million ethnic Tutsi, as ...

Rwanda has long denied supporting M23 and says it is defending itself, accusing Congo's military of joining forces with ethnic Hutu-led militias bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and ...

Thousands poured into nearby Rwanda, which has denied supporting the M23. The fighting in Congo has connections with a decadeslong ethnic conflict. M23 says it is defending ethnic Tutsis in Congo.

It has vowed to defend Tutsi interests, particularly against ethnic Hutu militias such as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, which was founded by Hutus who fled Rwanda after ...

Thousands poured into nearby Rwanda. The fighting in Congo has connections with a decades-long ethnic conflict. M23 says it is defending ethnic Tutsis in Congo. Rwanda has claimed the Tutsis are being ...