The joint EAC-SADC meeting of Ministers will be co-chaired by Prof Amon Murwira, minister for foreign affairs and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed rebels advanced and took control of the strategic eastern Congo city of Goma. In ...