In the Know features an interview, opinion or analysis from the people making the news in Africa. As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to visit Goma next week, François Grignon, Africa ...
Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo. Experts in the region called the arrests a major blow to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - After the success of the Congolese army and U.N. peacekeepers in defeating M23 ...
A former preacher has revealed how the FDLR militia manipulates religious teachings to spread extremist ideology, justify violence, and sustain anti-Tutsi narratives in eastern DR Congo.While ...
DAKAR, March 30 (Reuters) - Congo’s army has announced the start of a disarmament push against a militia linked to Rwanda’s ...
Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, the rebel militia that fled the country in the wake of the massacres is asking to return home. The FDLR, a Hutu army founded by members of the militias that ...
Congolese and Rwandan forces launched joint operations in January 2009, to eliminate the threat caused by a terrorist group, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), based in the DRC.
Genocide ideology continues to pose a serious threat to peace and stability in the Great Lakes region, particularly in Rwanda. A substantial and growing body of historical and contemporary evidence ...
Last January the conflict in North Kivu shifted once again with the arrest of CNDP rebel group leader Laurent Nkunda in Rwanda and the entry of the Rwandan national army (RDF) into the DR Congo to ...
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U.N. peacekeepers record details of weapons recovered from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda militants after their surrender in Kateku, a small town in the eastern region of the ...