Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?
Rwandan support, combined with weaknesses in DRC’s army, enabled the M23 to seize vast amounts of territory in North Kivu ...
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 current war is the biggest outbreak of violence in the region since the conclusion of the Second Congo War in 2003 — the bloodiest war of the 21st century, with 3 million to 5.4 million deaths.
Analysts fear that Uganda and Rwanda's growing presence in eastern DRC could lead to a repeat of the so-called Second Congo War, which lasted from 1998 to 2003, involving many African countries ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country whose name has become synonymous with conflict, poverty and exploitation. The Central African country is the second biggest in the continent ...
The fighting in recent weeks has raised fears of a repeat of the Second Congo War, from 1998 to 2003, which drew in multiple African countries and resulted in millions of deaths from violence ...
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In 1998, Kabila reneged on the arrangements he had with the aforementioned countries, souring relations between the DRC and its neighbors, and prompting a Tutsi rebellion and the Second Congo War ...
Army and M23 rebels are accused of shooting children Rapes spike after fall of major eastern Congo city Some children ... the region's second-largest city which fell earlier this month.
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo claimed Friday to have seized a second airport in the ... The rebels were “imposing an urban war by attacking the positions of the ...
M23 rebels patrol the centre of east Congo's second-largest city Bukavu ... of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi. “The war does not end in Congo, why? They have nothing to do here, they ...
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 ...