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

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

Rwanda-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this ...

As the situation gets worse in the DR Congo, the Director of Communication at Caritas Butembo-Beni has decried the ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said.

The M23 rebels took control of a town 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Bukavu despite a ceasefire.

particularly against ethnic Hutu militias such as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), founded by Hutus who fled Rwanda after participating in the 1994 genocide of close to 1 ...

On April 6, 1994, Habyarimana and neighbouring Burundi’s president, Cyprien Ntaryamira – both Hutus – were killed in a rocket attack on their plane over the capital Kigali. * The next day, ...

when Hutu extremists killed Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and then were toppled by the Tutsi-led forces led by Kagame. Rwanda says some of the ousted perpetrators have been sheltering in Congo since ...

M23 is the latest ethnic Tutsi-led, Rwandan-backed insurgency to fight in Congo since the aftermath of the genocide 30 years ago, when extremist Hutus killed Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and then ...