Map by Joel Masselink. The most accessible alternative? The highland sector of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, located on the opposite side of Lake Kivu ... indeed its backer Rwanda, are operating ...

The Kivu provinces, where the fighting is concentrated, are part of one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, the Albertine Rift.Home to endangered species such as eastern lowland ...

The formal establishment of an organization to manage Lake Kivu and the Ruzizi River basin, shared by Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, was never formally ratified by its member countries. That left the once ...

Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is bustling again with cargo and passenger boats. The lake was quiet for almost a month after rebels captured the port cities of Goma and Bukavu.

The formal establishment of an organization to manage Lake Kivu and the Ruzizi River basin, shared by Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, was never formally ratified by its member countries. That left the ...

In North Kivu, a second day of clashes raged near the banks of Lake Edward, which straddles ... in the long fallout from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and competition for control of mineral riches.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the strategic ... linking four provinces in the east of the country: North Kivu, South Kivu, Tshopo and Maniema, cutting off Congolese army ...

Since President Paul Kagame won the August 25, 2003 elections--Rwanda's first democratic elections after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi--the West has struggled to accept his leadership, with ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the strategic ... the M23 rebels seized a road linking four provinces in the east of the country: North Kivu, South Kivu, Tshopo and Maniema, cutting off Congolese ...

The lives of millions of people. All are now under the control of the M23 militia and its powerful backer, Rwanda. M23 reigns over a vast territory in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic ...