“The FDLR deployment was a part of a broader troop build-up by DR Congo near the Rwanda border,” he said. A retired RDF Colonel who The New Times spoke to in the days following our tour said the ...

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 ...

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power (3rd L) gets off a Rwandan Air Force helicopter at Mutobo Demobilization Centre during a visit by U.N. Security Council envoys to Kigali October 7, ...

Twenty-five people have been sanctioned by the Rwandan government for terrorism and terrorism financing in a new sanctions list released by the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) on Tuesday, October ...

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 ...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have committed to drafting a peace agreement by May 2. But trust remains fragile. Militia groups who have been operating in the region are at the roots of ...

Last January the conflict in North Kivu shifted once again with the arrest of CNDP rebel group leader Laurent Nkunda in Rwanda and the entry of the Rwandan national army (RDF) into the DR Congo to ...

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 ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group handed over FDLR fighters to Kigali. They say leaders of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) were involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The ...