Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

The M23 is the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of eastern DRC’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth, critical in the production of much of the world’s technology.

This determination plus the practical route map the SADC-EAC Summit laid down needs to be applied to whole conflict in all its forms in the eastern DRC, to give the people who live in the two Kivu ...

Until now, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has rejected accusations by the DRC, the UN and Burundi that Rwandan troops were involved in the fighting. However, in an interview with the French magazine ...

M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east as international pressure mounted on ...

But will it actually work? Our past and ongoing research on army integration and demobilisation in eastern DRC casts doubt on the plan, for three reasons. The first risk is that armed groups will ...

However, Rwanda's Defence Minister, Juvenal Marizamunda, denies any interest in fighting against the DRC at the Munich conference. "Rwanda has nothing to gain from an unstable DRC. On the contrary ...

The soldiers' deaths on Thursday and Friday came amid a week-long visit this week by Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga to the DRC to, among other things, "assess the ...

This deployment followed approval by the Southern African Development Community in May 2023, in response to the deteriorating security situation in eastern DRC. The South African National Defence ...

In 2013, South African forces backed by UN peacekeepers repelled rebels linked to the M23 movement successfully as part of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) in the eastern DRC. But perhaps ...

"The ongoing conflict in Eastern DRC, particularly the recent heavy fighting in Goma, was triggered by constant violations of ceasefire by the Congolese Armed Forces in coalition with UN ...

Thousands of displaced civilians are on the move again in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Rebels have reportedly taken the airport outside Bukavu and are beginning to threaten the town ...