This development blocked earlier progress, when participants agreed that the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo ...

The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference. Soldiers stand on guard in the Lubero ...

Experts and analysts have expressed concern that Rwanda aims to take control of parts of DRC to ensure access to minerals. But Rwanda's government has framed the conflict as the defence of ethnic ...

A deadly insurgency is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country three times the size of Texas that is estimated ...

It completed the encirclement of Goma and began to push inside the city. M23 leaders say that they are fighting to protect ...

But the conflict between the DRC and the M23, which takes its name from the 2009 date on which a deal was reached to end a revolt by members of the ethnic Tutsi group, has been grinding on ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa continues to face backlash over the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where 14 soldiers have been ...

The DRC need not look far for examples; both Uganda and Rwanda are now strong and capable states that emerged from civil wars with ethnic and political fissures. They can offer lessons.

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa version on why the SANDF soldiers were stationed in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has shot down ... never had heroes involved in ethnic cleansing”.

Rwanda denies supporting the M23 militarily and accuses the DRC of sheltering the FDLR, an armed group created by ethnic Hutus who massacred Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Discover the Truth ...

Equally relevant is eastern DRC's complex geopolitics between neighbouring countries, based on cross-border ethnic ties, economic and security motivations, and domestic political issues.