Side by side
DR Congo and Rwanda compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
- Shared indicators
- 42
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 3
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
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Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1994 onward
Refugee crisis and the Congo wars
Over a million Hutu flee to camps in Zaire and beyond; the presence of armed génocidaires there draws Rwanda into the Congo wars from 1996, which kill millions across the region.
Peoples & Migration · from the Rwanda chronicle · Aftermath, Justice and Reconstruction · Outreach Programme on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda — Historical Background, History of Rwanda
- 1996–1997
First Congo War
A Rwanda- and Uganda-backed rebellion under Laurent-Désiré Kabila advances across the country against the collapsing Mobutu regime.
War & Rupture · from the DR Congo chronicle · Mobutu's Zaire · Kabila, Laurent-Désiré (1939–2001), Mobutu Sese Seko
- Aug 1998
Second Congo War begins
Kabila breaks with Rwanda and Uganda; nine nations and many militias are drawn into 'Africa's World War,' the deadliest conflict since 1945.
War & Rupture · from the DR Congo chronicle · Africa's World War & After · Second Congo War