The United States is promoting a deal that would require Rwanda to pull troops from eastern Congo before the two sides sign a ...

Qatar has presented a draft peace proposal to Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels after months of mediation in Doha, and the ...

The latest conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has brought horrific violence and suffering to innocent ...

"vroom... vroom... vroom," echoed the playful sounds of children pretending to drive imaginary cars, their laughter mingling with the dust as they tumbled into each other playing hide-and-seek.

Genocides are one-sided, systematic killings of civilians unable to surrender, unable to sue for peace. When Raphael Lemkin ...

Joseph Kabila, the ex-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has lashed out at the government of his successor - ...

The sorghum fields behind their homes in Huye, Southern Rwanda, were their little world, a world that, on April 21, 1994, would begin to unravel. Divine Gashugi, who mostly uses the moniker Tete ...

Belgium, the former colonial power in the DRC and Rwanda, has been vocal in the international community in criticising Kigali for its support of the M23. The text signed in Entebbe also calls for all ...

Heavy fighting broke out last Wednesday ... The civil war has pitted Hutu rebels against the minority Tutsi-dominated army since 1993. - Sapa-AFP ...

The concepts of Hutu and Tutsi, initially social categories ... But Brussels maintained healthy relations with Kigali and continued to send weapons to fight against the exiled Tutsis attempting to ...

In the past month alone, three people asked me if I was Hutu or Tutsi after I told them I was Rwandan. One of them was a white elderly man who was just walking by as I was chit chatting with friends ...

Most had returned when Tutsi-led Rwandan troops first invaded Congo in 1996. But Rwandan authorities said thousands of Hutu militiamen and ex-soldiers had stayed and joined Congo's army to ...