The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. However, the M23 ...

A report commissioned by the UN Security Council found that between 3,000 to 4,000 Rwandan soldiers were fighting alongside the M23 rebels in North Kivu, with Kigali exercising “de facto ...

Kigali justified both efforts by arguing ... but many were refugees and non-combatant Congolese in North and South Kivu, in eastern DRC. Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed ...

Hundreds of people rallied in Butembo, a city in Congo's North Kivu province to demand an end ... preliminary agreement between Kinshasa and Kigali. Signed in Washington on Friday, the accord ...

I want to see peace. I want to see happiness. I want to see health. They have incredible land with incredible value. A lot of ...

ISTANBUL / KIGALI, Rwanda New governor appointed after ... Somo Kakule Evariste was appointed as the new governor of the conflict-hit North Kivu province amid a rebel offensive in the eastern ...

Authorities in Congo blamed Rwanda on Saturday for the death of the North Kivu governor which was confirmed ... recalled all of its diplomats in Kigali and ordered the cessation of activities ...

Kigali accuses the Congolese military and its ... the capital of the country’s long-embattled, mineral-rich North Kivu province, threatens the city’s 2 million people and risks a wider ...

In late January, the rebels captured Goma, the largest city in the province of North Kivu; less than three weeks later ... setting up a de facto protectorate whose leadership will take orders from ...

allegations Kigali has denied. Bintou Keita, head of the U.N. mission, said there was "no timeline" for a withdrawal from North Kivu or Ituri provinces. "Don't ask me what's next," Keita told ...

In the last article in this series, we saw how both the Kayibanda and Habyarimana regimes worked tooth and nail to frustrate Rwandan refugees in countries of asylum. This piece epitomises the ...

KIGALI – Rwanda said on March 3 that London ... in February after taking control of the North Kivu capital of Goma in late January. AFP ...