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 ...

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 ...

DRC accuses Rwanda of backing the rebel group and has cut diplomatic ties with the country. Meanwhile, Kenyan President William Ruto, the current chair of the East African Community, is calling on ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

We were joined by Vava Tampa, the CEO of Save the Congo, a grassroots campaign group working to end the conflicts and humanitarian crises engulfing the DRC. Krishnan Guru-Murthy: What is your big ...

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 ...

Minister of Defence Angie Motshekga has dismissed claims that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) troops in the DRC have run out of ammunition and food, amid the ongoing conflict.

Several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been recaptured by government forces, according to the Congolese army. The Armed Forces of the ...

Since November 2021, when the Rwandan-backed rebellion of the March 23 Movement (M23) resumed fighting against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the east of the country, almost 1.5 million ...