A convicted war criminal based in Uganda has announced a new rebel movement intent on toppling the government in eastern ...

Nearly 7000 people have been killed since January this year in the conflict that's ongoing in the Democratic Republic of ...

Start-and-stop diplomacy continues against a backdrop of humanitarian disaster.The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 ...

Rwanda’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.

Military leaders from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have called on local armed groups operating in ...

Sources this publication spoke to after nearly 72 hours since the incident indicated the pilots – a Ugandan and a South ...

Defence Union SANDU says it is cautiously optimistic about a peace deal reached for the return of South African troops from ...

The situation in eastern DRC continues to deteriorate, with M23 rebels gaining ground and diplomatic efforts failing to ...

The M23 armed group agreed a deal with SADC on the evacuation of its forces from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo or DRC), so-called to distinguish it from a much smaller country on the other side of the river that also calls itself Congo, is the largest country in ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

The size of the SADC deployment has never been made public but analysts estimate it to number around 1,300 troops.