Kagame's comments clearly suggested that he wants South Africa to back off from DR Congo, where its military involvement dates back to the late 1990s. It first joined the UN's peacekeeping mission, ...

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The three peacekeepers — one from Uruguay and two from South Africa — were killed over the weekend in the fighting around Goma. More than 300 U.N. peacekeepers have been killed since the mission in ...

Economic rivalry and ethnic tensions lay at the center of the long-simmering conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the strategically located city of Goma has recently fallen to r ...

The latest advances are part of a major escalation of a decades-old conflict over power, identity and resources ...

General Rudzani Maphwanya of the SANDF reveals that the M23 militia in the DRC has sustained significant casualties during a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday talked over the phone with the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of distorting facts and making deliberate attacks.

Members of the M23 rebel group ride on a pickup truck as they leave their position for patrols amid conflict between them and ...

A senior U.N. official in the eastern Congolese city under threat from Rwandan-backed rebels said Tuesday that civilian ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are moving south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what ...

In DR Congo, fighting continues in the Eastern city of Goma. MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country says ...