Democratic Republic of Congo doubled salaries for soldiers and police on Friday, the finance ministry said, in an apparent ...

M23 rebels in control of key areas of eastern Congo have agreed to a ceasefire with African coalition peacekeepers who ...

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

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

It is not only Congolese foot soldiers who are fleeing. The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city, the military command and provincial authorities fled by boat on Lake ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse. Congolese soldiers near the city of Goma ...

"Welcome to Soweto," reads the name of a small store, with the flags of South Africa and DR Congo either side of the phrase.

The size of the SADC deployment has never been made public but analysts estimate it to number around 1,300 troops.

JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has paid homage to the South African troops who died during a ...

Ugandan troops killed 242 militants from the Cooperative for Development of the Congo (CODECO) armed group in a two-day ...

Foreign minister Olivier Nduhungirehe has described as "unfortunate" claims by Burundian president Evariste Ndayishimiye that ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...