President Félix Tshisekedi should abandon plans to invite neighbouring militaries into the eastern DRC
Questions about pay in the new army’s first and only brigade prompt chuckles among the men. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), soldiering on a steady salary has never been part of the deal. Less humorous are the former child combatants and illiterates among the ill-trained guerrilla fighters and government soldiers.
More than 100 people are reported to have been massacred in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an apparent bid to shore up Rwanda’s unpopular occupation of the country’s eastern provinces.
Aid workers have recovered at least 150 mutilated bodies from two rivers after reprisal killings for an uprising in Kisangani.