The withdrawal of the SAMIDRC force from the eastern DRC has significant negative ramifications for South Africa and SADC’s ...

The premature withdrawal of SADC troops reveals deep-seated political problems and military capacity limitations.

Rwandan support, combined with weaknesses in DRC’s army, enabled the M23 to seize vast amounts of territory in North Kivu province before capturing the provincial capital, Goma, a city of two million, ...

At his bar in Bukavu - a city in eastern Congo overrun by Rwandan-backed rebels last month - Adolphe Amani dipped into his ...

Termination of the SAMIDRC regional peacekeeping mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) earlier this month ...

Since December 2023, troops from SADC - the Southern African Development Community - have been taking part in a mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo tasked with supporting the Congolese ...

Despite a defence budget of over R55 billion, South African troops in the DRC are reportedly running out of ammunition and ...

In the Burundian town of Rugombo - located in northwestern Cibitoke province bordering eastern DRC - more than 40,000 ...

The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one ...

The presidents of Congo and Rwanda met on Tuesday, 18 March, in Doha, Qatar. According to Kinshasa, they agreed to a ...

High in the celestial heavens – or, more likely, somewhere hotter deep beneath our feet – the spirits of Robert Mugabe and ...