in music (the blues) and in history (from the indigo trade to the color of Union soldier’s uniforms in the Civil War ... about the pale blue flag of the “Congo Free State” or the history ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Risk of more armed actors. Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out ...

Burundi troops in Congo to counter M23 rebels Rwanda denies ... Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic ...

Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out in 1998 as Congo's then ...

No fewer than 773 people were killed in Goma last week, according to Congolese authorities, as Rwanda-backed rebels captured the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a major esc ...

NAIROBI - As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the ... deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military ...

He warned that the “war will take a regional dimension.” With Rwanda and Congo each “drawing a line in the sand,” diplomacy faces a great challenge, said Mutiga with the International ...

The group waged the First Congo War from October 1996 to May 1997 that ended with the overthrow of the DRC’s long-time ruler, Mobutu Sese Seko. Kabila became president. Kagame and Museveni ...