Start-and-stop diplomacy continues against a backdrop of humanitarian disaster.The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 ...

A man in military fatigues speaks as others stand next to him inside the Palace of the Nation during an attempted coup in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19, 2024 in this screen grab ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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.

KAMPALA, March 25 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan military said on Tuesday that its deployment of troops in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), specifically in the town of Bunia ...

This gathering comes in the wake of SADC's announcement to conclude its military mission in the region, leaving a critical gap in efforts to stabilize the area amid rising violence and ...

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 ...