Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its ...
USAID staffer Kenneth Bledsoe and his family had to be evacuated to safety from the Congo -- only to return home to find Elon Musk leading the dismantling of the agency.
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 ...
African leaders announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were sent to quell ...
The AFC/M23 rebellion in eastern DR Congo has "categorically reject the unfounded allegations" presented in Human Rights ...
ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...
European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the ...
The alliance between the Congolese army, MONUSCO, the Wazalendo, and the FDLR has contributed to the increased militarization ...
Bertrand Bisimwa, the AFC/M23 rebellion’s deputy coordinator, has once again denounced the Congolese government’s endless targeting and killing of unarmed Banyamulenge civilians in Minembwe, Uvira, ...
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered a new and more destabilizing stage. A call for a pause ...
Their statements during the court martial proceedings highlighted the dysfunction of an army that has now lost more territory ...
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.