James Kabarebe, Rwanda’s minister of state for regional integration and a former general in its defense force, now “orchestrates” RDF support for M23, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets ...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, has rebuked his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot over a statement blaming Rwanda for the insecurity in eastern DR ...
A newly surfaced historical image from Belgium’s highly protected archives has reignited debate over the country’s dark colonial legacy in Central Africa. The image, depicting Belgian royalty during ...
Now streaming on Max, Raoul Peck’s 2005 biographical film Sometimes in April, starring Idris Elba, takes a different swipe at ...
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...
M23, which refers to the March 23, 2009, accord that ended a previous Tutsi-led revolt in eastern Congo, is the latest group of ethnic Tutsi-led insurgents to take up arms against Congolese forces. It ...
Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., was nowhere to be seen in Goma’s Serena Hotel as the bearded Corneille Nangaa, in military fatigues ...
The Rise of Paul Kagame Paul Kagame’s ascent to power is deeply intertwined with Rwanda’s tragic history. Born in 1957, Kagame grew up as a Tutsi refugee in Uganda after his family fled ethnic ...
The conflict is a legacy of multistate wars that played out in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which as many as 1 million people, mainly of the Tutsi ethnic group, were killed by Hutu ...
DAKAR, Senegal — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped.
The group also vows to defend Tutsi, an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region ... Since 1996, Rwanda has had a long history of military intervention inside Congo, claiming they were defending ...
A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million people, a hub for displaced people and aid groups on the border with ...