Feb 4, 2025 · Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

Apr 3, 2024 · The genocide ended with the military victory of the Tutsi-led political group and today’s ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), headed by current President Paul Kagame.

Nov 7, 2024 · Attempts to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo only exacerbate existing citizen distrust in government.

Nov 8, 2022 · The resurgence of the M23 rebel group in Eastern Congo increases suffering for civilians and heightens international tensions.

Nov 3, 2023 · Early this week, the International Organization for Migration announced that nearly seven million people have been displaced by conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the vast majority of ...

Apr 10, 2024 · The genocide unleashed decades of strife within Rwanda, especially on the Tutsis. But instability had already become the norm in the country when war broke out three and a half years earlier.

While ethnic cleansing is not defined as a matter of criminal law, its attributes appear in the crime against humanity of persecution and as predicates for acts of genocide.

The ICC initiates public cases against six rebel leaders operating in eastern Congo, including two members of the largest Rwandan Hutu militia, for alleged crimes including the recruitment of ...

Jan 9, 2025 · Despite repeated attempts at peace agreements and cease-fires in 2015, 2017, and 2018, political violence and instability have persisted between government forces and opposition factions in South ...

Special Envoy Tom Perriello discusses the ongoing civil war in Sudan, the resulting humanitarian crisis, and the Biden administration’s designation of genocide by the Rapid Support Forces.