This week, the town of Goma in the Eastern DRC was captured by the rebel group M23, fully supported by Rwanda. First, it is important to make it clear that the cataclysmic life of the post ...

“Conflict-related sexual violence has been an appalling feature of armed conflict in eastern DRC for decades,” said Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for U.N. human rights chief Volker Tür ...

To give context to what is happening in the DRC, it might help to understand the conflict, who the M23 rebels are and the role South Africa has been playing there.

A privately owned security company in South Africa has offered assistance to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) after 13 of its peacekeeping troops deployed in the DRC were killed in ...

The eastern DRC city of Goma was seized by M23 rebels and their Rwandan allies on 26 January. Residents have emerged to count the dead and make sense of the fast-moving offensive. Some small traces of ...

Trump Says Crisis Between Rwanda and DRC Is a 'Very Serious Problem' (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday described the crisis between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo as a ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

It all began after Ramaphosa linked Rwanda Defence Forces to the DRC conflict. Kagame fired back at Ramaphosa accusing him of propagating lies. The Democratic Republic of Congo's President Félix ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday said the South African troop presence in the DRC was “not a declaration of war” but an endeavour, sanctioned by the United Nations and the Southern ...

During a news conference about an air collision in Washington, Trump was asked if he had a plan to bring peace in DRC, where a conflict in the east of the country - that Washington, the U.N. and ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured Goma, a city of 2 million people in the DRC, on Monday, ignoring widespread calls for them to halt their offensive and enact a ceasefire. They extended their ...

The EFF and Democratic Alliance (DA) have both asked for a debate in the wake of the intensified fighting in the DRC that has claimed the lives of 13 South African soldiers in recent days.