The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

The position of Uganda, officially in Congo ... once the world’s largest, has been deployed for more than 20 years, tasked with helping contain flare-ups in fighting across the country.

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged ... has sucked in neighbouring countries to devastating effect – notoriously in the 1990s when two huge conflicts, dubbed ...