One thing never ceases to amaze about the conflicts, bloodshed, and civil strife perpetually roiling the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo): the reluctance of the international ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rebel leader of rebel group of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) including M23, Corneille Nangaa, addresses a news ...

Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., was nowhere to be seen in Goma’s Serena Hotel as the bearded Corneille Nangaa, in military fatigues ...

There was always milk for the kids, never soda. Adults always drank black coffee." 16."Our big snack was popcorn. If I wanted a dessert, I had to make it from scratch. Tang powder was a dessert ...

The Great Lakes region was destabilised by the Rwanda genocide in 1994. Hutu extremists killed up to 800,000, mainly Tutsi, people in Rwanda. A Tutsi counteroffensive regained control of the ...

The conflict can be traced to the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda, where Hutu militias killed between 500,000 and 1 million ethnic Tutsi, as well as moderate Hutus and Twa, ...

Earlier this week the Tutsi-led M23 rebels seized Goma, the largest city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo which is home to lucrative gold, coltan and tin ore mines. They then shifted their ...

FEAR OF WIDER CONFLICT M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led, Rwandan-backed insurgencies that have brought tumult to Congo since the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda 30 years ago, when ...