It lasted only six months but set the stage for the Second Congo War, which spanned roughly four years and eventually killed more than 3 million people. A peace agreement finally arrived in 2002 ...

This action triggered the First Congo War, which resulted in the overthrow of Zaire’s president, Mobutu Sese Seko, with Laurent-Désiré Kabila assuming power. In 1998, a rebellion backed by Rwanda and ...

She is one of millions of victims of sexual violence in the DRC, where rape has routinely been used as a weapon of war. Cases ...

By some estimates, the Second Congo War (1998-2003) caused more than 350,000 violent deaths and upwards of five million excess civilian deaths. Even if the real number is only half that much ...

However, the relations between the allies soon broke down and the Second Congo War (1998-2005) broke out a year later. It was the deadliest war fought since World War Two. The President of the ...

Tutsi militias and foreign powers soon intervened, intensifying the conflict. The Second Congo War (1998-2002) erupted due to strained relations between Rwanda and Uganda on one side and DRC on ...

Soldiers hunted his family as the bloodshed of the second Congo war reached its peak. Now Queensland’s fastest 15-year-old hopes to honour the nation that saved them by sprinting for Australia ...

“During the six-day war,” he replied, referring to the June 2000 conflict between Ugandan and Rwandan troops in the brutal Second Congo War (1998-2003), when heavy fighting spilled over into ...

Since 1996, an estimated 6 million Congolese people have been killed and more than 7 million others have been internally displaced in the Second Congo War, which is considered the world’s ...

In 2004, at the end of Congo’s own factional war ... requires that ISIS’s actions be treated as a war crime, point blank, and not just a “second-class crime that happens to second-class ...

On Saturday, Félix Tshisekedi was sworn in for a second term ... for peace to DR Congo? Or have heightened violence and the president's campaign pledge to go to war with neighbouring Rwanda ...