The European Union is expected to sanction nine individuals in connection with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

Sultani Makenga, the military leader of M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo, has said it was “unacceptable” that the government hired European mercenaries in the ongoing conflict that pitted the Congolese ...

Today, Kagame is president of Rwanda, and he insists on reconciliation between the warring groups. It was an incredible ...

For instance, March 23 Movement (M23), a rebel group named on March 23 2009, the date the accord between the National ...

Opinion - For years, whenever Rwanda raises concerns about the security threats from DR Congo, critics dismiss it as paranoia or political maneuvering. Some call it an overreaction; others, in Gen Z ...

Many more are thought to have arrived in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were slaughtered. But when a Tutsi-led government seized power and ended the ...

In one case in Umutara prefecture in late December 1997, Tutsi attacks on Hutu, tolerated by and perhaps incited by a local official, killed or drove into exile dozens of people. In other cases in ...

But the new face of the M23 in the region — Corneille Nangaa — is not Tutsi, giving the group "a new ... has said it was committed to "defending" the people of Bukavu. "We call on the population to ...

The number of people killed in Goma and its surroundings in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has exceeded 8,500 since ...

“I want to be a messenger of reconciliation and a way for people to reach God.” When he was a BC doctoral candidate in 2019, he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly on the International Day of ...

When Rev. Marcel Uwineza, S.J., a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, was invited to give remarks at a recent commemoration of the event, he was asked to provide a photo of his ...