This week, the town of Goma in the Eastern DRC was captured by the rebel group M23, fully supported by Rwanda. First, it is important to make it clear that the cataclysmic life of the post ...

“Conflict-related sexual violence has been an appalling feature of armed conflict in eastern DRC for decades,” said Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for U.N. human rights chief Volker Tür ...

Curious, I opened the attachment. It was a photo of some of the carnage in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – to be precise, the photo of corpses of those killed in the DRC’s never ...

EFF MP Carl Niehaus said the meeting on troops in the DRC had been cancelled to shield Angie Motshekga from answering questions from MPs. Parliamentarians are up in arms after an urgent portfolio ...

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risks spilling over into a regional war, it is feared, as Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have captured the key city of Goma. The leader of a rebel ...

The DRC conflict has hit closer to home, with 13 SANDF members losing their lives at the weekend, in the city of Goma.

The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has prompted calls on Brussels to review an agreement with the Rwandan government intended to secure the supply of critical materials ...

She says this allows states not to accept responsibility for armed conflict and war crimes. Meanwhile, the DRC told the UN the advance of Rwandan forces into its territory is a Declaration of War.

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 ...

Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma after entering eastern Congo's largest city. U.N. officials reported ...

A privately owned security company in South Africa has offered assistance to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) after 13 of its peacekeeping troops deployed in the DRC were killed in ...

The M23 rebels captured Goma City, the biggest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on January 27 after five years of fighting that started at the Bunagana border, which Uganda ...