The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.
ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...
M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.
It is not only Congolese foot soldiers who are fleeing. The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city, the military command and provincial authorities fled by boat on Lake ...
Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?
A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...
The human cost of the conflict became painfully clear as it was revealed that fourteen ...
The decision means troops in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...