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 ...

UNICEF recorded nearly 600 cases of rape in the week following the fall of Goma, in the east of the country, at the end of ...

Seventy decapitated bodies have been discovered in a church in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to ...

Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, frightened residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over ... Goma's south, Bukavu, near ...

People watch the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern ... as international pressure rose over the M23’s expansion in a mineral-rich region that’s critical for ...

Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over the M23's expansion in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over the M23’s expansion in ...

The M23 fighters moved into the centre of Bukavu on Sunday, marking the Tutsi-led group's most significant advance since seizing east Congo's biggest city of Goma in late January. The capture of ...

As Congo Army Retreats From Bukavu, Children Pick up Guns and Get Killed By Sonia Rolley and Emma Farge (Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents shot dead three boys who had picked up guns left by ...