The FDLR, a militia linked to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, is embedded in the Congolese army (FARDC), especially the Presidential Guard, and is continuously being rearmed, according ...

Sultani Makenga, the military leader of M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo, has said it was “unacceptable” that the government hired European mercenaries in the ongoing conflict that pitted the Congolese ...

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

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

The AFC/M23 rebellion in eastern DR Congo has "categorically reject the unfounded allegations" presented in Human Rights ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are ... in Brussels, a Belgian think tank. "Numerous reports have highlighted the disappearance of ...

When M23 rebels seized Goma, nearly 300 European mercenaries were in the city ... paying reparations for stealing Rwandan and Congo minerals, Belgium would be declared bankrupt and most western ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Its soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive presidents are said to have kept it weak for fear of ...

Irish troops in the Congo as part of a UN peacekeeping mission held out against overwhelming odds while inflicting heavy causalities on Katangese gendarmerie and Belgian mercenaries attacking ...