The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference. Soldiers stand on guard in the Lubero ...

While Rwanda backs the M23 armed group that has taken huge swathes of the mineral-rich eastern DRC in recent months, ...

Mass rapes reported. Mass graves confirmed. Ten bloody days in which the M23 rebel group swept across the east of Democratic Republic of Congo. The militia, made up of ethnic Tutsis, claims it’s ...

He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War ... of a war that raged between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda between ...

WIDESPREAD KILLING, RAPE, DISEASE AND WAR MAKE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO HELL ON EARTH "A significant share of the DRCs known minerals’ deposits are in the east of the country in areas now ...

He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged ... of his army were in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or not.

In a recent opinion piece in South Africa’s Sunday Times, Kabila wrote that under Tshisekedi, the DRC “is close to imploding as a result of the civil war”. He also accused the president of ...

As fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese armed troops escalate in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Office of ... sexual violence as a weapon of war. “Conflict-related sexual ...

Security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been battling the M23 ... The conflict can be traced back to the Rwandan civil war (1990–1994). Following the Rwandan genocide ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday said the South African troop presence in the DRC was “not a declaration of war” but an endeavour, sanctioned by the United Nations and the Southern ...