Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an ...

Since the Rwandan genocide, the ongoing conflict in east Congo has killed 6 million people, in attacks, famines and unchecked disease outbreaks stemming from the fighting.

By Reade Levinson, David Lewis and Sonia Rolley , REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from ...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a peace agreement Friday in Washington to end fighting that has killed thousands, with the two countries pledging to pull back support ...

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help ...

Rwanda made global headlines in 1994 for a genocide that saw Hutu extremists kill around 800,000 people, mostly from the minority Tutsi community, over a 100-day period during the country’s ...

Rwanda marks July 4 as Liberation Day. It is a day of earnest celebration, of memory, of national rebirth. It commemorates the day the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)—an armed wing of the Rwandan ...

Rwanda has denied directly supporting the M23 but has demanded an end to another armed group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which was established by ethnic Hutus linked to ...

The conflict can be traced to the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where Hutu militias killed between 500,000 and 1 ...

The agreement comes after the M23, an ethnic Tutsi rebel force linked to Rwanda, sprinted across the mineral-rich east of the DRC this year, seizing vast territory including the key city of Goma.

The elephants in the room – the U.S. and China – are contenders for Congo’s critical untapped minerals, used in smartphones, ...