In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

On the Congolese government side, there’s the Congolese military and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a militia composed of ethnic Hutu ... of ethnic Tutsis and which ...

Extremist Hutu groups, particularly the Interahamwe militia, spread hate speech and propaganda using the radio, newspapers, and public rallies to demonise the Tutsi population while calling for ...

The conflict in the eastern D.R.C. has roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutu extremists killed about one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Subsequently, two million Hutu refugees fled to ...

The current Rwandan government – which seems to be backing M23, an ethnic Congolese Tutsi militia – accuses Congo of colluding with extremist Hutu militias to target the Tutsi community in Congo.

In turn, it accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says are bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening Rwanda, and has repeatedly called for Kinshasa to ...

“The decade of violence in the Great Lakes region began with the 1993 civil war in Burundi, which was followed by the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsis and ... by DRC-based Hutu rebels.

But Rwanda's government has framed the conflict as the defence of ethnic Tutsis in eastern DRC from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some 800,000 ...

On 8 March 2025, join us to celebrate International Women’s Day under the theme, “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” This year’s theme calls for action that can ...