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Jun 20, 2024 · The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated one million minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus...
Feb 21, 2024 · How did the 1994 Rwandan genocide affect the DRC? The DRC crisis originally began as a result of a series of post-colonial battles for power after independence from Belgium in 1960, which...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—known as Zaire until 1997—has suffered two wars since 1996. The first war in 1996 began as a direct result of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The second began in 1998 and involved the armed forces of at least seven countries and multiple militias.
Jun 21, 2022 · One Congolese soldier has been shot dead, leading to the DRC closing its border with Rwanda. Who are some of the players in the conflict? CODECO is one of the armed groups in Ituri.
Apr 11, 2024 · The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 has in complex ways fuelled violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past 30 years. At the centre of these tensions...
Apr 30, 2024 · The world’s leading humanitarian action forum on Tuesday said that crushing levels of violence and displacement are fuelling unprecedented civilian suffering in the eastern part of the Democratic...
Apr 5, 2024 · The Nkamira Transit Center is home to thousands of refugees who fled violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decades-long conflict is a legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Dec 1, 2022 · Following her official visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo from 10-13 November 2022, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, is deeply alarmed...
Internally displaced people’s rights. Nearly 7 million people were estimated to be internally displaced, the highest number in Africa; most displacements were triggered by armed conflict. As in 2022, Ituri and Nord-Kivu provinces were most affected with over 500,000 newly displaced people, according to the UN.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has experienced violent conflict since the start of the First Congo War in 1996–97. The Second Congo War (1998–2003), was the deadliest conflict since World War II. Today there is an ongoing political crisis as government power-sharing agreements are falling apart.
