With Hutus at the helm, there was systematic repression of the Tutsis. This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, ...

Between 2005 and 2022, more than 105,000 children are estimated to have been recruited and used in armed conflict around the ...

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas talked about a recent flashpoint in Africa - and if and how the EU needs to adapt its development work policies after President Trump slashed US aid programmes. The ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

“It will increase the risk of regional war, especially with Burundi,” Fred Bauma, the executive director of Ebuteli, a research group specializing on Congo, said about Bukavu’s fal ...

That will determine, to a larger extent, whether we have a full-scale war ... in the Congo," said Makhubela. "The eastern DR Congo has clearly become an epicenter of all sorts of civil militia ...

However, when Kabila turned against his backers, it led to the waged Second Congo War from 1998 to 2003, with Rwandan and Ugandan-backed militas fighting against the DRC government. M23 claims ...

Three days after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels stormed the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, as the fog of war lifts from the ...