The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been surging through the ...

There is a pattern of nations whose difficult histories have resulted in authoritarian governments peddling grievance.

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

In the previous article in this series, we saw the pros and cons of the election process and the road to independence. In this article, the culmination of independence and the new dispensation will be ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...

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

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

Rwandan-backed M23 fighters captured Goma. It's an advance that could escalate an already deeply divided region.

Hutu-80 cells were seeded in 12-well plates (Corning Life Sciences, Lowell, MA, United States), San Francisco, CA, United States) at 200,000 cells/well for 48 h or 14 days. On the day of the ...

The killer has a connection to the genocide in Rwanda through his parents, who were both Tutsi and were forced to flee the country following the outbreak of mass killings by the Hutu-dominated regime.