In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

Recognising the vital role of youth in shaping Rwanda’s future, the Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement launched “Rubyiruko menya amateka yawe (Youth, know your history),” a programme that ...

The current Rwandan government – which seems to be backing M23, an ethnic Congolese Tutsi militia – accuses Congo of colluding with extremist Hutu militias to target the Tutsi community in Congo.

The conflict in the eastern D.R.C. has roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutu extremists killed about one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Subsequently, two million Hutu refugees fled to ...

But the conflict between the DRC and the M23, which takes its name from the 2009 date on which a deal was reached to end a revolt by members of the ethnic Tutsi ... of Rwanda, a Hutu-dominated ...

Rwanda’s government, meanwhile, has framed the conflict as the defence of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed ...

In turn, it accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says are bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening Rwanda, and has repeatedly called for Kinshasa to ...

Did you know that there has never been a single Tutsi armed group in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo before 1995? In this article, we will delve into the historical context of the ...

But Rwanda's government has framed the conflict as the defence of ethnic Tutsis in eastern DRC from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some 800,000 ...

The Rwandan president has accused his Congolese counterpart of ignoring the legitimate concerns of DRC's Tutsis who face discrimination. Image: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and neighbouring ...

they can build an international alliance of Tutsis and, also use the rebels to build a buffer zone with the DRC that has some rebel Hutu militia from Rwanda. The Tutsi push in Eastern DRC has stopped.