The Rwandan Genocide Echoes in DR Congo Strife
Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.
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Goma dispatch: Mass graves and reprisal fears as M23 seize DR Congo city
The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...
The New Times on MSN40m
DR Congo crisis: What to expect as EAC-SADC leaders meet
East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state and government will, on Saturday, February 8, meet over ways to possibly bring an end to the escalating ...
Christianity Today3d
He Prayed Psalm 91 as Bullets Landed on His Roof
Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...
The Hindu4d
Crisis in Congo: On the Democratic Republic of the Congo and rebels
The crisis in Congo can be traced to the Rwandan genocide in 1994 in which about 8,00,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were massacred by ethnic Hutu militias. When tens of thousands of Hutus fled Rwanda ...
The Cipher Brief3d
Expert Q&A: What the M23 Rebels Want in the Congo Conflict
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...
The Jewish Exponent1d
As winds shift against immigrants, refugee resettlement advocate Sasha Chanoff steps up
Sasha Chanoff recalls the day he was forced to make one of the most painful decisions of his life.It was 2000, only six years ...
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Banyamulenge Condemn South Africa-Based Fugitive Kayumba Nyamwasa Claims
The Banyamulenge community have expressed their frustration with South African television Newzroom Afrika, for giving a platform to RNC founder Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa who claimed that the ...
Why Is Violence Flaring Up in Mineral-Rich Congo?
Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide.
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5 things to know about the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...
Boise State Public Radio5d
Life in Goma, the Congolese city under a new occupation
A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.
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Andrew Kenny: Why Rwanda’s Kagame is the most dangerous man in the world
More than anybody else, he was responsible for the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, where about 800,000 Tutsis were killed. It is woke to blame all the woes of Africa on European colonialism. I believe ...