Discusses the war between Uganda and Rwanda in Kisangani, Congo as of spring 2000. Delay in deployment of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers to monitor a peace deal; Reasons for the fighting, including control of mineral wealth; Role of Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) rebel soldiers; How ...
(Reuters) - Rwanda said on Tuesday that Canada's position on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was "shameful", adding that measures announced by Ottawa against Kigali would not solve the conflict. Late on Monday, Canada announced it had suspended the issuanc...
Amnesty International has accused Congo’s army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.”
During Bangladesh's 9-month war for independence in 1971, between 250,000 and 400,000 girls and women were raped, leading to an estimated 25,000 pregnancies.[3] In Rwanda, at least 250,000 women were raped in the 1994 genocide.[7] During the 1990s, more than 20,000 Muslim women ...
The park, Africa's most biodiverse protected area, is at the heart of the region affected by the recent M23 rebellion. Its mountain gorilla sector, in the south of the park straddles the border between Rwanda and the DRC and has been the object of intense fighting since October 2021. ...
The German government has imposed more sanctions against Rwanda over its invasion and support of the M23 militia group in DR Congo, on Tuesday suspending aid and new financial commitments to the east African country.
"DR Congo has problems it has to deal with, just like we have our own as sovereign countries. What is unacceptable, however, is to watch as armed groups from DRC attack us and kill our people," said Kagame. Kagame was referring to ongoing frost relations between Rwanda and DRC, stemming...
To understand what is happening here, you have to go back more than a decade, when the genocide that claimed nearly a million lives in neighboring Rwanda spilled over into Congo. Since then, the Congolese army, foreign-backed rebels, and home-grown militias have been fighting each other ove...
4 During the violent civil war in Rwanda, 300 000 children were brutally killed over a 90-day period.4 Similar catastrophic situations are found today in the Darfur region of Sudan and the Congo.5 Full Text Read More About Pediatrics ...
More important causes of the fighting, she said, are land rights and the status of the refugees and militias from neighboring Rwanda who flooded into eastern Congo in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. About 5 million people, mainly civilians, have died in off-and-on fighting in...