From 1998 to 2003, the Second Congo War raged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It involved nine African nations and became one of the largest wars in African history. The war began about a ...

the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1998, the Second ...

He was reportedly reluctant to be president of the vast mineral-rich country, which was in the midst of the devastating Second Congo War. The conflict broadly pitted pro-government forces and ...

In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the deterioration of relations between Kigali and Kinshasa. To diminish the impression that Rwanda held undue influence over the Congolese ...

While Uganda's role in the Second Congo War led to a damning International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, its government insists that its current presence is driven by regional security needs.

In his Friday address Kabila argued he left the DRC in a far better state than when he took power in 2001 on the assassination of his father in the middle of the Second Congo War. "Barely six ...

In early April, the Trump administration finally tapped a senior adviser for Africa: Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of ...

This is an old playbook. During the Second Congo War, Goma was the headquarters of the Rwandan-backed RCD movement, which built parallel institutions and levied taxes independent of Kinshasa.