Rwandan troops, under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, and Congo-based Tutsi militias with Rwandan backing launched an invasion of Zaire, which was ruled at the time by Dictator Mobutu ...

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10 days later, after further testing the specimens were negative for Zaire ebolavirus and Marburg virus by PCR. A mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused 53 deaths ...

In 1956, ethnic tensions in Rwanda forced many Tutsis to seek refuge in Congo (then Zaire), Uganda, Tanzania and beyond. Tutsis who fled to Congo and Uganda were not accorded full citizenship ...

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In the first Congo war, Rwanda invaded Zaire (now Congo) in pursuit of Hutu ethnic extremists who had fled there after they committed a genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. The 1994 Rwanda genocide ...

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"There are places that smell of corposes, the dirt of abandonned military uniforms and you can see the ruins of abandonned houses and looted shops," Ahadi Kyambikwa, a tailor from Goma, Democratic ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...