The majority of the people in eastern DRC are Tutsis who have strong ties with other Tutsi groups across the border. Tutsis ...

As part of a book project on the mechanisms of genocide ideology in eastern DR Congo's North Kivu Province, Harvard scholar Bojana Coulibaly and her research partner travelled to the region to ...

As part of a book project on the mechanisms of genocide ideology in eastern DR Congo’s North Kivu Province, Harvard scholar Bojana Coulibaly and her research partner travelled to the region to ...

The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening the sovereignty of the biggest country in sub-Saharan Africa. M23 ...

In 2021, it launched Operation Shujaa, deploying troops with the DRC's consent to Ituri and North Kivu provinces ostensibly ... Lakes diplomat said there was "ethnic sympathy" between Museveni's ...

The roadmap, seen by AFP, foresees a permanent ceasefire being declared in the coming four months, with the support of UN peacekeepers in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu.

In the streets, things are getting uglier. Migrants have been facing ethnic profiling and arbitrary arrests by police. They’re subject to harassment not only by police but by others, including ...

The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated ... mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and South ...

“For two days—Friday and Saturday—there was nothing but gunfire and looting,” said a resident of the Kadutu market, a key district in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu in the Democratic ...

Uganda's role in eastern DR Congo has largely gone under the radar during recent violence but its complex approach aims to ...

The first clashes between armed Banyamulenge and Bafuliiru took place in September 2008 in Minembwe in South Kivu, according to the 2011 NGO report. Politicians prey on these ethnic divisions, ...