M23 is backed by Rwanda, Congo’s much smaller neighbor ... a kleptocrat who ruled for nearly three decades. A civil war toppled Mobutu in 1997; his successor, Laurent Kabila, was assassinated ...

Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation.” Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame says he wants peace, but he’s not acting ...

a spillover of the civil war and the 1994 Rwanda genocide. After the 1994 atrocities – during which Hutu extremists killed hundreds of thousands of mainly Tutsi people in Rwanda – many Hutus ...

The United States announced sanctions against a Rwandan official and a Rwandan-backed rebel in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo over a rapidly expanding war in the area. On Thursday ...

If the M23 and its Rwandan backers get their way, a country already hosting seven million displaced people could be engulfed in a destabilizing war—its third since the ... Both the judiciary and civil ...

March 4 (Reuters) - Rwanda said on Tuesday that Canada's position on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was "shameful", adding that measures announced by Ottawa against Kigali ...

He has so far refused to do so. She emphasises only a dialogue between DRC and Rwanda could overcome the acute crisis phase and perhaps prevent a major war. This weekend, at the Munich Security ...

Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will engage in direct negotiations in the coming days to end the conflict in the ...

Rwanda has stopped its aid cooperation with Belgium, following Brussels' criticism of Kigali's involvement in the ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Belgium accuses ...