The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

Following the investigation opened against Israel for genocide and the arrest warrants issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant ...

WHENEVER the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is mentioned, two things come to mind- the first is goldmine and glory, and ...

With over 105 million people, the DR Congo is a mosaic of 250 ethnic groups and 700 languages, a testament to its rich cultural diversity. However, in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, ...

Thirteen South Africans were killed last month by the most dangerous man in the world: Rwandan president Paul Kagame.

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

Congo has been wracked by more than a century of violent colonization and imperialism resulting in millions of deaths—and ...

Sub-regional bodies like the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community are pivotal to the ...

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Government forces have been fighting against M23 rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have taken over the key eastern ...