The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, for a year, as fighting in the region ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Rwanda has exercised command and control over M23 rebels during their advance in eastern Congo, gaining political influence and access to mineral-rich territory, according to a ...

The United States accused Rwanda on Friday of fueling instability and war as a Rwanda-backed advance of the M23 rebel group ...

Rwanda helped M23 rebels gain control of territory in eastern DR Congo that gave Kigali access to its natural resources, according to UN experts. In a confidential new UN report seen by The Associated ...

Karuretwa framed Rwanda's growing influence through the lens of "smart power," combining military capability with diplomatic leverage. "Through operations, training, joint exercises, and sharing ...

Volker Türk, the U.N. human rights chief, said his office "confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23... We are also aware that children were in possession of weapons." The United Nations ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body on Friday condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ordered a team of experts to examine rights violations in the region. The ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Cuts to U.N. funding for refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The diplomat who was president of the U.N. Security Council in April 1994 apologized Wednesday for the council’s refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and ...

More than five hundred people including members of the diplomatic corps, Rwanda diaspora, students, media personnel, civil society and UN staff participated in a commemorative event to mark the 31st ...