It lasted only six months but set the stage for the Second Congo War, which spanned roughly four years and eventually killed ...
Article on the cause and human costs of the second Congo War (1998-2003) a civil war that involved multiple armed groups, most backed by large… ...
By some estimates, the Second Congo War (1998-2003) caused more than 350,000 violent deaths and upwards of five million ...
And for a young kid to go through that, for anyone to go through that… it’s just very vivid. I can still picture it to this ...
It was a war that the U.N.’s O’Brien, presumably with the full approval of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo ...
Tutsi militias and foreign powers soon intervened, intensifying the conflict. The Second Congo War (1998-2002) erupted due to strained relations between Rwanda and Uganda on one side and DRC on ...
“During the six-day war,” he replied, referring to the June 2000 conflict between Ugandan and Rwandan troops in the brutal Second Congo War (1998-2003), when heavy fighting spilled over into ...
The second conflict ... While the 2003 agreement officially put an end to the war, it did not end all fighting in eastern Congo, near the border with Uganda and Rwanda. Some of the factions ...
In 2004, at the end of Congo’s own factional war ... requires that ISIS’s actions be treated as a war crime, point blank, and not just a “second-class crime that happens to second-class ...
At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, a local governor said. A ...
The Rwandan army and the M23 armed group have indiscriminately shelled displacement camps and other densely populated areas ...
On Saturday, Félix Tshisekedi was sworn in for a second term ... for peace to DR Congo? Or have heightened violence and the president's campaign pledge to go to war with neighbouring Rwanda ...