Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Saturday signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end decadeslong fighting in eastern Congo that commits them to a permanent ceasefire and a comprehensive ...

The agreement marks a breakthrough in talks and intends to attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich ...

Digne Rwabuhungu, a geologist who heads the school of mining and geology at the University of Rwanda (UR) has debunked claims that Rwanda doesn’t have minerals by revealing how surveys from the ...

Rwanda is commemorating the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militias. But this year the event is marked by tensions over ...

Norway will extradite a man to Rwanda on the East African country's request, to stand trial on charges of committing murder during the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Norwegian police said on Tuesday. The ...

Rwanda drew international attention, and some outrage, by agreeing to take in Britain's rejected asylum-seekers in a plan that collapsed last year. Now Rwanda says it is talking with the Trump ...

Rwanda's ally Uganda, unhappy about another rebel group in DR Congo that threatens its security, has also been accused of helping the M23 - with its officers also spotted at Tchanzu.

When the UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited Rwanda to discuss the asylum transfer deal between the two countries, she presented it as a progressive solution to an “unprecedented ...

After taking control of Goma, the M23 rebels – backed by Rwanda – now want to advance further into South Kivu. But as they edge closer to Burundi, the war risks dragging in more neighbours.

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Kagame has been Rwanda's president ever since. Rwanda says some of the ousted perpetrators have sheltered in Congo since the genocide, posing a threat to Congolese Tutsis and Rwanda itself.