The head of world cycling said the Road World Championships would go ahead in Rwanda in September, dismissing criticism from ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in fields outside, the U ...

Rwanda accuses Congo of harbouring a Hutu militia intent on persecuting Tutsis, the ethnic group targeted in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and says it must defend itself against that existential ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group in Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday said it had handed over to Kigali 20 fighters from a militia founded by ethnic Hutus who took part in the Rwandan genocide.

Kagame’s commandos also infiltrated Hutu militia and actively engaged in killing Tutsis. The second myth is that RPF massacres of Hutu civilians during and after the genocide were essentially reprisal ...

The UN deployed a peacekeeping force, MONUSCO. Kabila also enlisted the help of Hutu militia groups in eastern DRC, deepening ethnic tensions with Congolese Tutsis who are perceived as pro-Rwanda.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are trying to demonstrate they can restore order in the city and other localities they control in ...

At the same time, Rwanda says it is necessary to keep fighting the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu militia, which Rwanda claims was founded by men who perpetrated the ...

The genocide in Rwanda took place over 100 days in 1994. The ethnic Hutu militia involved in killing up to 800,000 people - the vast majority from the Tutsi community - fled to what is now DR Congo, ...