The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing one of the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crises. Ongoing ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six ... most often involving ethnic and militant groups with contestations going back to the Congo Wars, and the 21st century brought ...

The group is mostly made up of former DRC soldiers who defected from the army, accusing the government of failing to uphold that agreement. They are primarily ethnic Tutsis – nearly a million of ...

[AFP] An attack by a militia from the Lendu ethnic group has killed 51 people in northeastern ... M23 pushes deeper in east DRC, UN urges Rwanda forces to leave M23 advances deeper in east DRC ...

At the heart of this conflict lies a web of ethnic tensions ... self-defence. The DRC, backed by the international community, has dismissed M23’s claims, arguing that the group is acting ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group in Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday said it had handed over to Kigali 20 fighters from a militia founded by ethnic Hutus who took part in the Rwandan genocide.

In a statement on social media, a spokesperson for the group said rebels were in ... framed the conflict as the defence of ethnic Tutsis in eastern DRC from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the ...

[AFP] An attack by a militia from the Lendu ethnic group has killed 51 people in northeastern ... EAC, SADC leaders call for ceasefire in Eastern DRC, plan security measures for Goma "This is ...