Kinshasa, Congo
A peace agreement signed this week formally ended the war between Rwanda and Congo, where troops from six countries have been fighting for four years. “Africa’s World War,” as the conflict was known, killed 2.5 million people. The war began in 1998, when Rwanda, Uganda, and Congolese rebels took up arms against the Congolese government, accusing it of harboring thousands of Hutu militants who had taken part in the grisly 1994 Rwandan genocide. Zimbabwe, Angola, and Namibia sent troops to support the Congolese government. Under a peace deal brokered by South Africa, Rwandan troops will withdraw, and Congo will disarm the Hutu militias.
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