South African leaders have agreed to maintain peacekeeping forces in eastern DR Congo after Rwanda-backed rebels seized the regional hub. The decision was made at an extraordinary meeting of the ...

Southern African leaders pledged "unwavering" backing Friday to the Democratic Republic of Congo after advances by the Rwanda-backed M23 group, which captured the biggest city in its mineral-rich ...

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 ...

President Ramaphosa said, in a statement that, the fighting is the result of an escalation by the rebel group M23 and Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) militia engaging the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC ...

Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner made the claim to the BBC, saying that she believed Rwanda was attempting to orchestrate a regime change in the DRC as international leaders had failed ...

France was also in "close contact with its partners at the U.N. in New York to encourage a resumption of the dialogue between DRC and Rwanda, facilitated by Angola within the Luanda process." ...

Kinshasa, 31 January 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), is deeply concerned about the hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced over the last few days in Goma, North Kivu ...

Rwanda’s involvement stems from two key motivations: economic gain and border security. Eastern DRC is rich in minerals, much of it extracted by artisanal miners. M23 controls key mining areas, ...

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EFF MP Carl Niehaus said the meeting on troops in the DRC had been cancelled to shield Angie Motshekga from answering questions from MPs. Parliamentarians are up in arms after an urgent portfolio ...

EFF Member of Parliament Carl Niehaus is calling for Defence Minister Angie Motshekga to resign in the aftermath of the latest deadly attack on members of the South African National Defence Force ...

"We do not see, from where I sit, a possibility of a military solution to the challenges that face the eastern DRC," he told reporters during a briefing. "It was, it is, and am sure it will ...