Amin recruited his followers from his own tribe, the Kakwas ... who favoured early independence, and the Hutu emancipation movement, culminating in the 1959 Rwandan Revolution: Hutu activists began ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to ...

The killer has a connection to the genocide in Rwanda through his parents, who were both Tutsi and were forced to flee the country following the outbreak of mass killings by the Hutu-dominated regime.

Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of eastern Congo’s largest city including its airport, the United Nations said, as ...

Conflict erupted after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when ethnic Hutu extremists killed up to 800,000 minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. A member of the M23 rebels walked alongside residents ...

Rwanda has accused Congo of enlisting Hutu rebels and former militiamen whom it blames for the 1994 genocide. Rwanda security officials check people crossing from Congo in Gyseny, Rwanda ...

In part, this history has origins in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which 800,000 people, primarily from the Tutsi community, were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists. The genocide ended with ...

But, Rwanda dismissed statements that "did not provide any solutions" and accused the Congolese government of sabotaging negotiations with the M23 and supporting Hutu militiamen linked to the 1994 ...

Its eastern borderlands are a tinderbox of rebel and militia fiefdoms stemming from two regional wars after Rwanda's 1994 genocide when Hutu extremists murdered close to 1 million Tutsis and ...