Rwandan-backed rebels now control large parts of eastern Congo and threaten to expand their offensive west into two ...

Burundi's president has told the BBC he has seen "credible intelligence" that Rwanda plans to attack his country. Évariste ...

President Joao Lourenco, the current chairperson of the African Union (AU), had been ... against the DR Congo army and a militia founded by perpetrators of the 1994 genocide.

The resurgence of Rwanda-backed insurgents in eastern Congo has reignited a decades-old conflict over ethnic rivalries, ...

The leader of a war-torn African nation has put a secret deal on the table for President Trump: Help his country defeat a ...

The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ...

As the current rotating African Union (AU) Chairperson, Angola's President Joao Lourenco had been trying to mediate a lasting ceasefire and lower tensions between Congo and neighbouring Rwanda ...

UNITED NATIONS — Rwandan-backed rebels now control large parts of eastern Congo and threaten to expand ... of the current crisis is the 1994 Rwanda genocide which saw bands of ethnic Hutu ...

The conflict, rooted in the long fallout from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and competition for control of mineral riches, has led to rebel control of eastern ... more to the AU's overall priorities.