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 ...

Helen’s child by rape gives her a link “forward into the future.” Bearing children also meant protecting them from their ...

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

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 ...

Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Southern African Development Community heads of state have announced the withdrawal of their soldiers from the conflict in ...

The government of Congo will hold peace talks next week in Angola with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that has captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east, mediator ...