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The Fault Line: The African Great Lakes Conflict and its International Context

RIAC and IIS MGIMO Working Paper #88 / 2025 RIAC and IIS MGIMO Working Paper #88 / 2025 The conflict in the Great Lakes region of North and South Kivu—eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—reignited in 2021, triggered by military clashes between the Congolese armed forces and the M23 rebel group. The recent escalation coincides with inter-ethnic violence spreading into neighboring countries. The following working paper by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and...

14.01.2026

Goma, the City on the Volcano

... African War, [1] which had been ravaging the country for several years. The war’s first rebellion had, in fact, started here in August 1998, when Banyamulenge-Tutsi fighters, led by a former ally of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and backed by Rwanda (where Paul Kagame has ruled since the 1994 genocide), seized control of much of Congo’s resource-rich northeast. By early 2002, tensions were mounting between Rwanda and the Congolese Banyamulenge, while peace talks, facilitated by South Africa,...

01.02.2025

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