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

Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

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

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

part of the Southern African Development Community's mission to fight against armed rebel groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, stand in Goma as the bodies of two South African ...

The Democratic Republic ... and prosperous Congo would do wonders for the global economy and regional security." Paul Tilsley is a veteran correspondent who has reported on African affairs for ...

The South African National Defence Forces troops are leading the Southern African Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC) deployed to shore up the Congolese army against the M23 rebels.

Democratic Republic of Congo ... (Reporting by Congo newsroom, Sonia Rolley and Portia Crowe; Editing by David Holmes) Get the best of CNBC Africa sent straight to your inbox with breaking ...