Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

Ethnic violence in Kenya is influenced by state actions and leaders who shape narratives around ethnic identity. While recent ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have attacked Congolese government forces in the South Kivu province, breaking a two-day lull ...

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other ...

This development blocked earlier progress, when participants agreed that the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

The UN experts map a circuitous route showing how it is transported to close to the Rwandan border. It is then transferred to "heavy-duty trucks" that needed the road to be widened in order to ...

Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control ... Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., was nowhere to be seen in Goma ...

They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, far more than in 2012 when they first captured Goma for days in a conflict driven by ethnic grievances.

"This conflict is driven, in part, by ethnic divisions in the region," Malema said. "This is where Rwanda's influence in the DRC becomes clear. Ethnic groups that fled Rwanda during the genocide ...