PRETORIA, February 12. /TASS/. The Republic of South Africa has deployed additional elite soldiers, over 800 servicemen, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the local News 24 media outlet ...

Calls for alternative funding models and an adequate budget for the South African National Defence Force arise amid severe budget cuts and operational challenges.THE government has been called to ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - February 07, 2025 Storyline: The fierce clashes between the government of the ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

Some Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... military experience, added that the M23 rebels are outfitted like a regular army, not a guerrilla force. “Their uniforms, their equipment—they ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continued its advance Thursday through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and looked ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga is also expected to brief the nation on the deaths of 13 South African troops who were part of the peacekeeping efforts in the DRC.

The SAND has experienced 13 losses this year alone. They were caught in the crossfire between the DRC military and the M23 rebels. Speculations have been rife that there could be a possibility of the ...

Meanwhile, SANDF has confirmed that 13 South African troops were killed while assisting DRC troops in efforts to prevent M23 rebels from overtaking the city of Goma. Clashes between the Congolese ...

Back in 2018, Corneille Nangaa organised the controversial vote that gave power to the DRC's current president ... deems the M23 rebels to be their military wing. The UN, France, the UK and ...