at least some Ugandan officers have reportedly favored the Hema: In June 1999 Brigadier General James Kazini, then commander of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UDPF) in the Congo, ignored ...

More than 33 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities say. Unrest broke out between the Hema and Lendu communities in the ...

More than 300,000 people have been displaced this month by ethnic violence in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo ... the latest clashes - between Hema cattle-herders and Lendu ...

Dozens of people were killed in attacks on villages in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a civil society ... another local ethnic group, the Hema, and the army. Fighting between ...