THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict will continue until somehow the Tutsi and the Hutu resolve a long-standing tribal impulse that has remained a festering and gaping wound for decades.

By David Lewis and Sonia Rolley NAIROBI (Reuters) - As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push ...

The president and his close colleagues decided, however, to exaggerate the RPF threat as a way to pull dissident Hutu back to his side and they began portraying Tutsi inside Rwanda as RPF ...

Shortly after Buyoya returned to power in a July 1996 coup, the military government began a program of forced resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Hutu civilians in areas of rebel activity.

Thousands died; some casualties were former Hutu militants and members of armed ... Amidst the chaos of war, Laurent Kabila was assassinated in a 2001 coup attempt planned by his aides and guards.

Rwanda-backed rebels on Monday claimed they captured Goma, the largest city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

GOMA - Are South African troops fighting alongside Hutu militia in the DRC who were involved in a genocide? This is one of the claims as South African soldiers have been caught up in a fight ...