M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. "One of the main factors explaining the weakness of ...

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

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

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

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Congolese soldiers face trial for rape and murder as the army struggles against M23 rebels. Testimonies reveal issues like ...

The finger-pointing over the deadly incident has further inflamed tensions in eastern Congo - a political and ethnic tinder ...

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

Tensions are escalating in Eastern Congo as 13 people were killed in explosions during a rally in Bukavu, with the government ...

Congo's army said Rwandan troops and rebels fired rockets and grenades into a crowd gathered on Thursday in Bukavu's central square for a speech by one of M23's leaders. "The Rwandan army and its ...