Rwanda has dismissed DR Congo’s recent announcement that it reached a protocol with the Kinshasa-backed FDLR genocidal militia on disarmament, saying the focus should be on concrete action to ...

DR Congo must dismantle the FDLR, separate the militia from its armed forces and repatriate its members to Rwanda as required under the Washington Accords, government Spokesperson Yolande Makolo has ...

For nearly three decades, the United Nations Security Council has repeatedly declared that foreign armed groups operating in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) threaten civilians, ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda said on Tuesday its troops clashed with Rwandan FDLR rebels who attacked three villages on its border with Democratic Republic of Congo, but a spokesman for the FDLR denied ...

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The Congolese government said in an address on national television on Tuesday that a militia operating in the east of the ...

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In late May and early June, as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accused Rwanda of backing resurgent the M23 rebels, the latter counter-accused the former of working with the Forces Démocratiques ...

Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, the rebel militia that fled the country in the wake of the massacres is asking to return home. The FDLR, a Hutu army founded by members of the militias that ...

MUTOBO, RWANDA—Picture a battle-hardened group of ruthless killers living peacefully in a community with no fences and no security guards. The setting is a run-down collection of corrugated aluminum ...

But its presence in eastern Congo remains an irritant to Rwanda’s Tutsi leadership, which has held power since the genocide, and has prompted years of meddling by Kigali in its larger neighbour, ...

GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Congo and Rwanda have agreed a military plan to try to disband a Rwandan Hutu militia whose presence in eastern Congo is seen as a root cause of enduring conflict there, the ...