ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

The AFC/M23 rebels pressed on with their offensive in eastern DR Congo, capturing the town of Walikale in North Kivu Province ...

The country’s president offered a deal that would give the U.S. access to key minerals in return for a security pact that ...

30. Image After the fall of Goma, European mercenaries employed by Congo left the country through its border with Rwanda. Over the past month, those attacks have accelerated, and the Congolese ...

It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their surrender following a rebel assault on the ...

Ever since the Congo became independent, foreign forces have been present. From Jadotville to Goma, the foreign forces have taken many guises - peacekeepers, mercenaries, rebel armies and ...

The decision marks a major setback to efforts meant to find a peaceful solution to the war in the Democratic Republic of ...

Interview - The ongoing crisis in DR Congo has drawn international attention, with various stakeholders weighing in on its causes and potential resolutions. Former Belgian Senator Alain Destexhe, a ...

but said there would need to be humanitarian support for the people of eastern Congo and political support for the country to ...