Rwandan Meddling Keeps a Decades-Old Congo Conflict Boiling

The Shabindu camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province.

Photographer: Arlette Bashizi/Bloomberg

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Conflict has simmered in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the mid-1990s in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.