Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

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 ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

Advertisement M23 got started in 2012, was then defeated by Congo's military and the U.N. Force Intervention Brigade and re-emerged in 2021 with Rwandan Defense Force support. "M23's actions have ...

The question of peace between M23 and the Congolese government is also about a truce between Kigali and Kinshasa. Both have ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

Kigali soon caved, signing a peace treaty with the DRC. M23 was soon defeated by a FARDC and U.N. offensive, leading to its retreat into Uganda and Rwanda and surrender in late 2013. Relations ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Angola on Tuesday announced plans to act as a mediator in the conflict between Congo and the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23, according to a press release posted on the ...

Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the coming days. It was not immediately clear if the Congolese ...

Moto taxis wait for customers in downtown Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, one month after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured the city. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa ...

Angola Will Attempt to Broker Direct Talks Between Congo and M23, Presidency Says (Reuters) - Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between Democratic Republic of Congo ...