Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

The group was formed primarily as a result of tension between the Tutsi-majority Rwanda and the DRC. In 1994, Hutu militias in Rwanda committed what was later ruled by the U.N. to be an ethnic ...

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 ...