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

A former German ambassador to Rwanda has challenged a top European Union official on claims about M23 rebels and alleged involvement of Rwanda in the conflict in eastern DR Congo. Peter Fahrenholtz, ...

The selected foreigners who interfere in the DR Congo always deflect attention, and they obfuscate the legitimacy of Congolese Rwandophones fighting for their survival. Mercenaries, government ...

It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their surrender following a rebel assault on the ...

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

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) convened a virtual extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Organ Troika on March 6, and reportedly agreed to withdraw the ...

Other fighters on the ground have included mercenaries for Congo, including many Romanians, and troops from the southern Africa regional bloc that Rwanda's president has alleged — without ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the ...

A Russian envoy at the UN has condemned the silence by Western countries following the recent surrender of European mercenaries who were recruited by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city ... blame him for leaning heavily on regional forces and mercenaries while incorporating militias who have proved difficult ...

With Congo-wide elections promised during the next ... A column of French-speaking mercenaries led by Major Siegfried Müller, an ex-Wehrmacht sergeant who wears a German Iron Cross, was neatly ...

It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their surrender following a rebel assault on the ...