The East African Community ... However, the DR Congo government dismissed the EACRF and replaced it with a SADC force (SAMIDRC) which was under an offensive mandate. The SAMIDRC has collaborated ...

Built in 1912, this iconic steamboat's claim to fame is its role in the 1951 film, "The African Queen," starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. The vessel has a storied history that spans ...

Earlier the government said nine South African peacekeepers had been killed. The defence department said on Tuesday that the SANDF remained committed to its peacekeeping duties in Congo under the ...

Last year, another seven South Africans were killed in eastern DR Congo - making it one of the country's deadliest combat-related tragedies in recent times. South Africa and Rwanda have long had a ...

The Republic of the Congo became an independent nation on August 15th, 1960. Measuring in at more than two million square kilometers, Central Africa’s Congolian rainforests play host to a truly ...

NAIROBI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The regional blocs of southern and eastern Africa will hold a joint summit in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Feb 7-8 to discuss the conflict in eastern ...

Supported by It was one of the deadliest battles in decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After the city ... getting backing from another Central African county, Rwanda — the Rwandans ...

South Africa has troops deployed in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a U.N. peacekeeping ... But Pretoria is under pressure this week after 13 South African soldiers were ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in eastern Congo fighting ...