They all belonged to a group of mercenaries run by Horatiu Potra. Potra, a 55-year-old Romanian citizen, came to prominence ...

JOHANNESBURG - Pretoria is preparing to receive the bodies of 14 South African soldiers killed while on a peacekeeping mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The fallen ...

Members of the SANDF were killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) two weeks ago. They were part of a multinational Southern African Development Community (SADC) force deployed to ...

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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are to consider the deteriorating security situation in the eastern Democratic ...

JOHANNESBURG - In a significant development for the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, heads of state from the Southern African Development Community and the East African ...

I have just returned from a Heads of State summit in Tanzania on the conflict in the eastern DRC. The outcomes of the summit provide a beacon of hope for the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of ...

He acknowledged the complexity of the conflict, describing it as protracted and involving multiple actors with varying interests. The President pointed to the "clandestine international dimension ...

Rising fuel demand and the expectation that US plans for global reciprocal tariffs will come into effect only in April provide support ...

Conflict Minerals - A Convenient Myth for DR Congo's M23 War?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has experienced violent conflict since the start of the First Congo War in 1996–97. The Second Congo War (1998–2003) was the deadliest conflict since World ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—known as Zaire until 1997—has suffered two wars since 1996. The first war in 1996 began as a direct result of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The second began in ...