South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

It has accused South African forces of working alongside the Hutu FDLR, a charge South Africa denies. DEFENCE IN DECLINE South Africa's poor showing in the Congo crisis has gone down badly at home.

In the previous article in this series, we saw the pros and cons of the election process and the road to independence. In this article, the culmination of independence and the new dispensation will be ...

GOMA - Are South African troops fighting alongside Hutu militia in the DRC who were involved in a genocide? This is one of the claims as South African soldiers have been caught up in a fight ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...