A peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was signed in ...

Congolese soldiers have killed a Hutu militia leader and four of his bodyguards in an operation near the DR Congo's Ugandan border, it said in a statement Sunday.

The Hutu militia has terrorized civilians, given Tutsi rebels a reason to fight and also caused Rwanda to invade Congo previously in 1996 and 1998.

But near the end of April, she said, hundreds of soldiers and Interahamwe — Hutu militia members — came. "They surrounded the whole swamp and killed people until the evening," she said.

Outside, a horde of Hutu soldiers and militia members waited. "She asked these soldiers to make us come out of the monastery.

Congolese forces have killed the leader of an offshoot of a Hutu militia in the restive east of the country, the army said on Sunday, two months after killing the leader of the main faction.

Democratic Republic of Congo’s army said on Wednesday it had killed Sylvestre Mudacumura, the commander of a Rwandan Hutu militia who is wanted by the International Criminal Court. Mudacumura ...

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against three men whom they accuse of membership in an ethnic Hutu militia involved in killing Congolese civilians. Bernard T ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control ...

Rwanda criticizes the DRC, which faces problems with militia violence, for integrating a proscribed Hutu militia group into its army to fight against the mainly Tutsi M23.