Economic Freedom Fighters' (EFF) Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has called on South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Rwandan President Paul Kagame to stop tensions and prioritise peaceful resolution amid ...

Shifting calculations by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, underscoring importance of African mediators and global partners acting quickly to stem ...

Analysis - After nearly three decades of warfare, armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seems only ...

The army is itself the product of the painstaking integration of former belligerents after the Second Congo War (1998-2003). But rebel-military integration became an open-ended process.

In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the deterioration of relations between Kigali and Kinshasa. To diminish the impression that Rwanda held undue influence over the Congolese ...

The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

"We have taken Goma and have ordered soldiers to surrender by 3:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT)," Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River ... 3:00 a.m. deadline. A second rebel spokesman posted ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Congolese rebels said on Sunday they had taken Goma, the biggest city in the ...