Defence Minister Angie Motshekga and senior defence officials have expressed deep condolences to the families of the fallen soldiers. Meanwhile, the South African National Defence Union is ...

"Active zones of combat have spread to all quarters of the city, all the neighborhoods of the city," Lemarquis, the deputy U.N. envoy and top U.N. aid official in the DRC, told reporters in New ...

Rwandan-backed rebels marched into the center of east Congo's largest city on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of decades of conflict in a region already suffering one of the world ...

For three years, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been embroiled in an armed conflict between the army and the M23 rebel group that has killed hundreds of people and ...

M23 rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken control of a strategic town in the east of the Central African country, local politicians say, adding to the armed group ...

In a tragic escalation of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), nine members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) were killed and several other soldiers injured while ...

Picture: AFP JOHANNESBURG - The United Nations (UN) Security Council has denounced the flagrant disregard for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

Since peace talks failed, M23 fighters backed by Rwandan troops have gained swathes of territory in east DRC in recent weeks, triggering a humanitarian crisis and ringing the provincial capital ...

In December, the DRC Ministry of Health announced the emergence of an unknown disease causing influenza-like symptoms. The disease outbreak was identified as a combination of malaria, respiratory ...

Western leaders seem hamstrung in managing many conflicts, but that need not be the case in DRC. There, more than 6mn people are displaced, at least a third because of the M23 conflict ...

"We had proposed to both sides that if we could get to stabilization in eastern DRC, we could work on developing a spur from the Lobito Corridor up through eastern DRC," Phee told AFP in an ...

Belgium appointed a judge this week to investigate a criminal complaint brought last month by the DRC against Apple in France and Belgium, accusing the tech giant of using conflict minerals in ...