M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

Josephine Dusabimana says she rescued 12 people during the Rwandan genocide. (Jacques Nkinzingabo for NPR) LAKE KIVU, Rwanda — To be clear, there is nothing funny about genocide. Which is why it is ...

The first problem is neglect. The United States can spend tens of billions of dollars on diplomacy and intelligence, but if inaction rules the day, problems metastasize. Hamas tunnels and genocidal ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In January, the rebel group M23 captured Goma, the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnic Tutsi militants, ...

In one of the deadliest attacks in recent years, Burundi's Hutu rebels ambushed a commuter bus outside Bujumbura and killed 20 passengers, including a British aid worker, the army and survivors said ...

In a previous article, we explored why there had never been a Tutsi rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) before 1995. Today, we examine the deep-rooted history of ...

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is a widely documented atrocity, but it is important to note that in 1972, a significant number of people in neighboring Burundi were brutally killed in a largely ...

Marijke Verpoorten is affiliated with The University of Antwerp. This study was originally commissioned under the UNU-WIDER project Institutional legacies of violent conflict, from which it received ...

KIROLIRWE, Congo (Reuters) - A dissident Congolese Tutsi rebel commander said on Thursday he was ready to help Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to fight and disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels who ...

April 4 (Reuters) - Rwanda on April 6 observes the 13th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, which saw 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus killed in 100 days by the Hutu-led government and ethnic militias.