Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels sign framework for peace deal in latest bid to end decades-long conflict

Congo and Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Saturday signed a framework agreement for a peace deal, the latest step in the so ...
The New Humanitarian

UN faces scrutiny over refugee transfers from rebel-held DR Congo to Rwanda

The movement of thousands of people has raised concerns over potential war crimes and the role of the UN refugee agency.
The New Yorker

Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?

In June, when Trump announced that he had brought peace to eastern Congo, he described it as “a glorious triumph.” But the ...
Wall Street Journal

U.N. Accuses Rwanda-Backed Rebels of Slaughtering Children, Other Civilians in Congo

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo committed what might have been war crimes and crimes against humanity, raping women and executing children and other civilians, the United Nations said ...

UN tribunal says geriatric genocide suspect cannot be sent to Rwanda

The United Nations war crimes tribunal on Friday ruled that a geriatric Rwandan genocide suspect, who has been found unfit to ...
The Manhattan Mercury

DR Congo ex-rebel leader Lumbala's war crimes trial opens in France

Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala Wednesday said France's judiciary was not competent to try him as he went on ...
The New Times on MSN

Rwanda’s reconstruction inspires Kosovo, Quebec delegates

Government officials from Kosovo and Quebec have expressed their admiration for Rwanda's transformation after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. They spoke to The New Times on November 20, the final ...