An investigation by the Romanian ministry of defence has found that hundreds of active-duty soldiers and reservists worked in DR Congo as mercenaries, European media reports said. In the war with M23 ...

Musoni says that at the time, DR Congo was in the midst of war, and former Rwandan soldiers and members of the Interahamwe militia were not only integrated into the government forces but also ...

Soldiers of the same rank in FDLR and FARDC are treated the same way." ALSO READ: FDLR is entrenched in DR Congo Presidential Guard, says Makenga "In this war between DR Congo and M23, FDLR plays ...

Thousands of Congolese soldiers have reportedly fled or surrendered, fuelling fears of a wider regional war as neighbouring ... US Department of Commerce, DR Congo's vast mineral wealth, valued ...

Soldiers from the Ugandan People's Defence ... and South Kivu provinces and raising fears of a wider regional war. The DR Congo government has accused Rwanda of backing M23 in order to seize ...

Virunga in eastern DR Congo is home to a third of the ... Thousands of armed soldiers belonging to different rebel groups roam Virunga and its surrounding areas, battling for control of the ...

Convicted war criminal Thomas Lubanga has announced a new rebel group ... be convicted by the International Criminal Court in 2012 on charges of recruiting child soldiers. He was released in 2020.

After a rapid advance saw Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seize the two largest cities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, uncertainty now looms over whether they will push on to the capital, and ...

Read: South African soldiers endure ‘long walk’ back home from DR Congo war This week, US Congressman Ronny Jackson, who toured the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda returned a smirking verdict: M23 ...

Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the UN children's agency said Friday, warning that existing ...

armed group in a two-day battle in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), authorities in the army told Monitor on Saturday. The Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) said its soldiers ...