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

Travelers are urged not to go to Belarus because of arbitrary enforcement of local laws, risk of detention, continued facilitation of Russia's war ... Congo because of armed conflict, crime, civil ...

In January, the rebel group M23 captured Goma, the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnic ... started a civil war trying to take back control of Rwanda, and ...

Currently there are an estimated 6,000 elephants left in the wild in eastern Congo, down from approximately 22,000 before the civil war. These remaining animals ... conservation survey and patrol ...

Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, ...

Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo ... urban war by attacking the positions of the FARDC (Congolese military) who are keen to avoid bloodshed in Bukavu,” the ministry said.A local civil ...

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The order triggered what was to become the first Congo War. Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola began backing the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the liberation of Congo under Laurent-Desire Kabila ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...