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 ...

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first ...

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

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.

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...

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 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 ...

especially the ethnic Tutsi. (SOUNDBITE OF GUNFIRE) LIVINGSTONE: The soundtrack of fighting is a familiar one to people in this region. Eastern Congo, which is rich in critical minerals ...

The United Nations has reported mass violations including summary executions, gang rape and sexual slavery in the wake of a ...

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 ...