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

More than 280 men, alleged to be "Romanian mercenaries" by the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), have surrendered to the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The "mercenaries" are ...

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

Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II ... on the ground have included mercenaries for Congo, including ...

and European mercenaries as further destabilizing factors. Rwamucyo also raised concerns over Kinshasa's increasing militarization, leading to a lawless environment in eastern DR Congo.

Due to fighting involving the ADF, people had been forced to move to nearby villages in the war ... Congo entered the region’s second-largest city of Bukavu on Friday, local and civil society ...

The rebels advanced toward the center of South Kivu province after taking several towns, including Kalungu, Kanyezire and Mukwinja, according to a local civil ... Congo — many of them ...

Columns of Romanian mercenaries hired by Congo were seen crossing into Rwanda ... that the rebels' jamming activities are endangering civil aviation and hindering the delivery of humanitarian ...