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

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has become a theater of state-sponsored systematic extermination of a people--right under the gaze of a supposedly humane international ...

But in 1959, violence broke out between the Hutu and Tutsi, a conflict that ultimately ended with Rwanda’s independence in 1962. The new government elevated Hutu at the expense of the Tutsi ...

E bin dey raised by Tutsi parents, and at di age of 17 e ... Di fight-fight join wit di 1994 genocide wen Hutu extremists bin kill 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Wen e bin look dis time ...

The Hutu and Tutsi conflict dates back centuries but was significantly shaped by colonial rule. Before European intervention, the Tutsi were traditionally cattle herders and were often seen as the ...

Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group ... Their battle was enmeshed with the 1994 genocide, when Hutu extremists killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. When looking back at this time ...

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 ...