Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

The conflict is a legacy of multistate wars that played out in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which as many as 1 ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has not known peace, stability and sanity, sustainable economic and socio-political ...

Rwanda's government, meanwhile, has framed the conflict as the defense of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 group is one of about 100 ... rebels in eastern Congo merely want to defend Tutsis from the same Hutu extremists who carried out the genocide that killed some 800,000 Tutsis ...

Rwanda says it is defending itself, accusing Congo's military of joining forces with ethnic Hutu-led militias bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening Rwanda, where Hutus targeted ...

Rwanda-backed rebels seized much of eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, including its airport, the U.N. reported, as Rwanda’s ...

When Rwanda-backed rebels seized control of eastern ... rebels in eastern Congo merely want to defend Tutsis from the same Hutu extremists who carried out the genocide that killed some 800,000 ...

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...