The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to…
In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he…
M23 president Bertrand Bisimwa accused the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo of failing the people of eastern DRC
The city’s capture by M23 means neighbouring Burundi, an ally of the DRC government, now shares a border with an area controlled by the rebels, escalating the risk of…
Urgent diplomatic interventions are needed as the second largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo falls to M23
The March 23 Movement is filling administrative positions in Goma and Rwanda may do the same in Kivu
The well-heeled flock to a marble-clad hotel in a city renowned as a smuggling hub for gold.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and a renegade general have agreed to a United Nations-brokered ceasefire to halt more than a week of clashes in the east, the UN…
A dissident Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) general called for African mediation to broker a ceasefire in eastern DRC as fighting between his forces and government troops…
Two Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soldiers went on trial before a military court hours after being arrested for the murder of a prominent radio journalist, an official said…
A witness on Tuesday gave a gruesome account of how a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo took place last weekend, accusing the perpetrators of locking up innocent…
More than 30 civilians were burned alive when an armed gang herded them into their huts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and set them on fire, the United Nations…
In a haze of dust, wearing ear mufflers against the clang of machines, Lobano Kalimbiro smashes red rocks rich in tin ore with a metal hammer, working up a sweat in a trade that…
Rival factions in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) post-war army fought gunbattles in the vast nation’s restive east on Saturday, killing several people, a top military…
Hutu militias have kidnapped at least 15 people in remote villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past four days, demanding ransoms in a growing wave of…
A top army official in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) called on Tuesday for ”more dynamic” measures to disarm rebels and militias in the region, saying he was…
A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soldier has been killed in the east of the vast central African country in an attack by Rwandan rebels, a DRC army officer told reporters on…
Three thousand troops of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) regular army have deployed in the country’s eastern Walungu area to stabilise a region where Rwandan rebels are…
Pro-government Mayi-Mayi militia battled former rebels for control of an east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town in a week of artillery and gun battles that sent the town’s…
The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recaptured the town of Minova in the eastern province of Sud Kivu from a dissident general, a military spokesperson said on…
