Interview - The ongoing crisis in DR Congo has drawn international attention, with various stakeholders weighing in on its ...

Many of the perpetrators, known as les génocidaires, fled to the DRC, then known as Zaire. The influx of Hutu extremists, along with about 1.5 million Hutu civilian refugees, settled in the ...

M23 rebels handed over captured FDLR fighters to Rwandan authorities in Goma, DR Congo. The FDLR is a DR Congo-based militia ...

Rever: Rwanda’s invasion in October 1996 was cast as a military operation to dismantle Hutu refugee camps inside Zaire and prevent the armed elements in the camps from staging attacks in western ...

Rwandan support, combined with weaknesses in DRC’s army, enabled the M23 to seize vast amounts of territory in North Kivu ...

which was then known as Zaire. Most settled in the Kiv region, in the Eastern part of the country, along with about 1.5 million Hutu civilian refugees. The Hutu militants established militia ...

Two years later, he helped lead the revolt that toppled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in Congo, then known as Zaire. He served briefly ... massacred by the army and Hutu extremist militias.

During and after this genocide, around two million Hutu refugees crossed into Congo ... the Rwanda genocide and resulted in the renaming of Zaire to DRC. The war ended with the overthrow of ...