Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has become a theater of state-sponsored systematic extermination of a people--right under the gaze of a supposedly humane international ...

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

Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...

THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict will continue until somehow the Tutsi and the Hutu resolve a long-standing tribal impulse that has remained a festering and gaping wound for decades.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in an attempt to expand their area of control in the ...

The conflict is a legacy of multistate wars that played out in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which as many as 1 million people, mainly of the Tutsi ethnic group, were killed by Hutu ...

After seizing control of Goma, a provincial capital of 2 million people at the heart of a region home to trillions ... the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some 800,000 Tutsi, moderate ...

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.

The Tutsi people were excluded from the Congolese army, prompting them to attempt a government overthrow in 2012—an effort that ultimately failed. The group remained inactive for several years ...