The Congolese armed forces (FARDC) comprised around 135,000 soldiers in 2022, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, although experts believe this figure has since risen.

The monitoring, documentation, and reporting will feed into the Management Information System (MIS) being set up by MoGLSD as well as the State of Business and Human Rights Report that Resource ...

JOHANNESBURG, March 13 (Reuters) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated the mandate of its troop deployment in ...

FILE PHOTO: Members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) stand guard against the M23 rebel group in Lubero, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

"Is our army, the FARDC (Congolese armed forces) really leading offensives against this enemy? … Every day people are attacked, civilians are killed under the helpless eye of our FARDC,” he said.

FARDC is an abbreviation for the DRC armed forces. In September 2024, New York-based Human Rights Watch reported that the Rwandan army and the M23 armed group have “indiscriminately shelled ...

Southern African Bloc to Withdraw Troops From Congo in Phases JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state ...

GENEVA - Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in fields ...

GENEVA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human ...

Il y a le M23 et les FARDC ainsi que les patriotes qui se battent. À l'est se trouve le Rwanda et au sud se trouve le lac Kivu. Les habitants sont donc restés chez eux. Cela est également lié à ...

Soldiers of the Armed forces of the Democratic republic of Congo (FARDC) ride on top of a tank as they leave the city of Goma, on 23 January 2025 towards Sake. Picture: AFP KINSHASA - Authorities ...