The conflict in eastern DR Congo was not started by Rwanda, “and we will not accept to bear the burden of” the DR Congo’s governance and security failures, foreign minister Amb Olivier Nduhungirehe ...
Since 1996, the conflict in eastern Congo has killed an estimated 6 million people. In the first Congo war, Rwanda invaded Zaire (now Congo) in pursuit of Hutu ethnic extremists who had fled there ...
Rwandan troops, under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, and Congo-based Tutsi militias with Rwandan backing launched an invasion of Zaire, which was ruled at the time by Dictator Mobutu ...
But with time, it becomes clearer that Museveni was right about how to approach Zaire then, and is right about the strategic approach to Congo today. Alas, that’s not something we get to say ...
Feb 14 (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since ... in the country then known as Zaire. In its latest conflagration ...
Régine Mbuyi, Executive Secretary of the Bureau National Catholique de l’Enfance, told Crux that chronic war in the eastern ...
Health officials in Congo suspect a mysterious disease that killed 52 people and sickened 943 in Equateur province to be ...
In 1977 a Danish doctor working in Zaire (now Congo) died of a bizarre disease -- not Ebola fever, which had recently broken out there. She actually died of a pneumonia (Pnuemocystis carinii ...
Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in minerals.
One man wore a shirt emblazoned with "REGIMENT ETRANGER DES PARACHUTISTES", the French Foreign Legion's parachute regiment, which successfully fought in Zaire, Congo's former name, in 1978 to ...