The FDLR, a militia linked to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, is embedded in the Congolese army (FARDC), especially the Presidential Guard, and is continuously being rearmed, according ...

A South African parliamentary defence oversight committee has welcomed the decision by the Southern African Development Community to withdraw its troops from eastern DR Congo so as to pursue a ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern Democratic ...

The decision means troops in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

As M23 rebels take Bukavu and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, Michel Tissier, peace advocate ...

Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its ...

The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...

At least half a million people have been displaced by the fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed ...