As M23 rebels gain ground in Eastern Congo, President Felix Tshisekedi's government teeters on the edge of collapse. With the ...

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 seized Goma and Bukavu, and before the collapse of much of the humanitarian aid ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. "One of the main factors explaining the weakness of the FARDC lies in systemic corruption," suggested Alain De Neve, a ...

Kabila also began removing ethnic Tutsis from his government and took measures to weaken Rwanda’s military presence in eastern DRC. By the late ... in a 2001 coup attempt planned by his aides ...

a military court in the DRC sentenced 37 people to death, including three Americans — Tyler Thompson Jr., Marcel Malanga and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun — for their role in a failed coup in ...

The southern African regional bloc has decided to end its military deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where it lost at least a dozen soldiers in conflict there in January.

US nationals Marcel Malanga and Taylor Christian Thomson, both 21, and 36-year-old Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun are among 51 people accused by the Congolese military of participating in the coup.

Also sanctioned is Major General Ruki Karusisi, commander of the special forces of the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), which has been deployed in eastern DRC. The EU claims Rwanda’s military ...

What's more, senior FARDC military officers in eastern DRC have reported commanding significantly ... the army to become too strong, for fear of a coup d'état, and played generals off against ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military ... kept it weak for fear of a coup. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army has appeared too ...

The southern African regional bloc has decided to end its military deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where it lost at least a dozen soldiers in conflict there in January. The ...