In spring 2012 a group consisting of Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo defectors in North and South Kivu mutinied and created a new rebellion group called M23 (Movement du 23 Mars). The fighting between the M23 and the government troops resulted in a new wave of refugees, partly consisting of Congolese Rwandophone Tutsis, whose interests the M23 ...

 The question of the Congolese-speaking Kinyarwanda (Rwandophones) citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been the subject of debate and a source of conflict. The opposition against Rwandophones draws upon the autochthony discourse, linking identity and space in assertions of whom is to be considered the original inhabitant and a son of the soil. Accor...