"We terminated the mandate of SAMIDRC and directed the commencement of a phased withdrawal of SAMIDRC troops from the DRC," the regional bloc leaders said in a statement on Thursday. The decision came ...

Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders convened virtually on Thursday for an extraordinary summit to review the mandate of the regional intervention force deployed in the volatile ...

In parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), communities are gearing up for war or fleeing to safety amid the advance of M23 rebels, who captured the key eastern cities of Goma and ...

“The scale of sexual violence against children in eastern DRC is beyond a crisis – it is a tragedy. We are seeing an alarming increase in cases, not seen in years, with many young survivors ...

The ghosts of the controversial 2023 Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) recruitment could come back to haunt high-ranking officers involved in the exercise with MPs pushing for investigations. The development ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest country in Africa and one of the continent’s most important for nature conservation. Dense forests and woodlands cover more than half of ...

Tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda date back to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took over power in Rwanda, while Hutu militias ...

South Africa, Malawi and Tanzania were part of the SADC mission in DRC and all lost troops during recent attacks by M23 rebels. With the M23 rebel coalition having overrun large parts of the ...

This decision comes in the wake of a worsening security situation in the eastern region of the DRC, and it follows the tragic death of 14 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers ...

The Southern African regional bloc has said it will conclude its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), having decided on a “phased withdrawal”. Leaders from the 16 ...