Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

On May 31, 2025, close to 9,000 people stood or sat beneath the open sky and tents at Cyasemakamba in Ngoma District, not in celebration but in solemn remembrance.

Rwanda’s army is active across Africa, but as its foreign deployments grow, so do concerns it may be stretched too thin.

On March 31, 2016, the Military High Court of Kanombe sentenced ... of trials against former members or supporters of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), Rwanda’s ruling party since the 1994 ...

consolidating his position as the leader who has dominated the country's politics for three decades since his Rwandan Patriotic Army led the country out of the 1994 genocide. Presidents used to ...

Many of the current Rwanda Defence Forces officers fought in the Rwandan Patriotic Army. This was a Tutsi force during the civil war years of 1990-1994. As a result, the troops have expertise in ...

they formed the Rwandese Alliance for National Unity (RANU), which morphed into the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) and eventually into its military wing the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA).

backed by the army and police. Many victims — including children — were hacked to death with machetes. Kagame’s rebel group, the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front, managed to stop the ...