Implementing agreements to secure the vast, rich, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo would go further than vilifying Kagame ...

The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference. Soldiers stand on guard in the Lubero ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa remains in direct contact with the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and of Rwanda, the perceived backer of the M23 rebels ...

Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author of In Praise of Blood, which investigates mass violence under Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime using survivor testimonies, former soldiers, ...

With Hutus at the helm, there was systematic repression of the Tutsis. This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, ...

For primate sanctuaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the year 2025 has begun with panic, worry and uncertainty as ...

The United States sanctioned a Rwandan official and a Rwandan-backed rebel leader over recent fighting in the Congo.

For civil society, this was nonnegotiable. “No external forces can dictate the fate of the DRC,” said Bakanibona Isaac, the Legal Representative for the Burundi Association for the Consolidation of ...

Reports are emerging of thousands of civilians killed. Mass rapes reported. Mass graves confirmed. Ten bloody days in which the M23 rebel group swept across the east of Democratic Republic of Congo.

With people fleeing an escalating war between M23 rebels and Congolese government forces, the United Nations now fears a ...