M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. "One of the main factors explaining the weakness ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

Facing ongoing defeats and diminishing regional support, the Democratic Republic of Congo considers negotiating with M23 ...

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

CONGOLESE soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel recently to stand trial for crimes including ...

(Reuters) -Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila appeared before a ...

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

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

KCB has shut 15 branches in the DRC as clashes between M23 rebels and government forces escalate, raising concerns over ...

Recognising that the White House of President Donald Trump is interested in transactional relationships - and seeing the ...

But President Felix Tshisekedi, who once formed an awkward power-sharing deal with Kabila, has recently accused him of ...

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