In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the deterioration of relations between Kigali and Kinshasa. To diminish the impression that Rwanda held undue influence over the Congolese ...

The fighting has prompted hundreds of thousands of people to flee and fueled government accusations that Rwanda was declaring war by supporting ... the first and second Congo Wars until he was ...

Over the years, North Kivu province where Goma is located has been at the heart of military fighting in Congo, including the First Congo War and the Second Congo War. In both wars, one name has rung ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

Uganda, too, has a long history of interference, dating back to the Second Congo War (1998–2003), when its forces looted resources and clashed with Rwandan troops in Kisangani, a battle that left ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the Congolese trading hub of Goma last week, leaving thousands dead and wounded and raising concerns of a regional war. Congo and ... the world’s second-largest ...

The looming threat of a Third Congo War—following the two devastating conflicts of the 1990s that claimed six million lives, mostly civilians, through mass starvation and disease—underscores ...

M23 also has roots in the rebel movements sponsored by Rwanda and Uganda during the First Congo War (1996-1997) against Mobutu Sese Seko, and the Second Congo War against Laurent Kabila (1998-2003).

ramping up the risk of a return to full-blown regional war. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting ...

The question of their demobilisation has haunted the country ever since the end of the Second Congo War in 2003. A new chapter in this long-standing conundrum seems to have started. In 2022 ...