Since President Paul Kagame won the August 25, 2003 elections--Rwanda's first democratic elections after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi--the West has struggled to accept his leadership, with some ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in minerals.

The EAC and SADC are under growing pressure to translate diplomatic engagements into concrete action to prevent further ...

Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease.

Zambia and Tanzania on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Expressing concern over the worsening security situation in eastern ...

Rwanda welcomed calls for a regional summit on the DRC crisis. M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, have made gains in eastern DRC and took Goma. Soldiers from SA, Malawi and Tanzania have been killed in ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has requested an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council to address the ...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Wednesday estimated that at least 2,800 people died in Goma. (with newswires) Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website.

NAIROBI - Defence chiefs from the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to discuss the ongoing conflict in the eastern ...