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It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region ... and to protect Tutsis, the ethnic group partly extinguished by ...

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Reports indicate casualties among ...

Congolese forces were losing control of the city of Goma on Wednesday after rebel groups backed by Rwanda took over the ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to ...

M23 now says it is defending ethnic Tutsis in DRC, whom Rwanda claims are being persecuted by Hutus and former militias responsible for the genocide. Many Hutus fled to DRC after the massacre and ...

The rebels' rapid advances through Congo's mineral-rich east since the start of the year followed a breakdown in peace talks between Congo and Rwanda in mid-December. As ethnic conflict between ...

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 ...

Rwanda’s government, meanwhile, has framed the conflict as the defense of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed ...