M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

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

Facing ongoing defeats and diminishing regional support, the Democratic Republic of Congo considers negotiating with M23 ...

It is not only Congolese foot soldiers who are fleeing. The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city, ...

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

The SAMIDRC was sent to help the government of the DRC, a Southern African Development Community member, restore peace and ...

Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila appeared before a military ...

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

The auxiliary forces Tshisekedi has relied on further underscore the weakness of the Congolese army: alongside European military contractors—288 of whom swiftly surrendered—Congo has deployed barely ...

The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of dressing up prisoners in military uniforms in an effort to ...

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