The vast country is struggling to prevent Rwanda and Uganda from seizing some of its most valuable assets.

South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as part of ... be considered a "declaration of war." But he had also labeled Rwandan ...

Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed by Rwandan soldiers and Tutsi groups. When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was ...

Dorcas Kabongo, 16, is one of 20,000 child soldiers – many of them girls ... For decades, large swathes of the eastern Congo have been a war zone. Now in the Kasai province – a rebel ...

[AFP] A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn east on Friday handed a death sentence to eight soldiers, including five officers, for desertion and cowardice when fighting ...

At least 19 soldiers from South ... the Sadc region is ready for this war - psychologically, militarily and politically." But the withdrawal is not just a setback for South Africa, it's a blow to both ...

Their rapid offensive has killed around 7,000 people, Congo says. Another group of South African soldiers were due to return home later this week, the SANDF said. An official from the union that ...

Rwanda-backed M23 soldiers at a mine in Rubaya in the Democratic Republic of Congo. KAMPALA, Uganda—During the 19th century’s Scramble for Africa, European countries raced to secure territory ...