The country’s president offered a deal that would give the U.S. access to key minerals in return for a security pact that ...

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

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

The decision marks a major setback to efforts meant to find a peaceful solution to the war in the Democratic Republic of ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

As part of a book project on the mechanisms of genocide ideology in eastern DR Congo's North Kivu Province, Harvard scholar ...

The Luanda talks are expected to usher in peace and end a war that has claimed thousands and displaced millions of people since the start of the year.

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

SADC summit terminates mandate of military mission in DR Congo Kigali, Rwanda | NEW TIMES RWANDA |  A Southern African ...

They include Congolese government soldiers, foreign mercenaries, a United Nations ... and at times have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles away.