Talks between the DRC’s government the M23 have collapsed, with the rebels saying Joseph Kabila’s team is intentionally delaying the process.
Peace talks between the government of the DRC and M23 rebels were suspended again even after the UN pressed for progress in the troubled negotiations.
M23 rebels in the DRC have warned that attacks in the eastern part of the country may derail peace talks.
African leaders have called on the Democratic Republic of Congo government and opposition rebels to quickly make an accord to end renewed conflict.
The leader of the M23 says the rebel movement is ready to disarm – but only if DRC refugees are sent back home and the FDLR state army is eradicated.
The UN has called the M23 rebels’ move of enforcing a curfew in areas in the DRC under their control "completely unacceptable".
The M23 rebels have written to the UN secretary general saying they are not responsible for the DRC war, adding the UN body Monusco is to blame.
The battalion of 850 soldiers deployed in the war torn DRC is adequately equipped to deliver peace and stability, says the SANDF.
The United Nations has given M23 rebel forces 48 hours to leave the city of Goma in the eastern DRC or face "the use of force".
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo appears preoccupied with the arrangements for national concertations.
In the deadliest clashes in months, fighting between troops and rebels in eastern DRC has killed at least 130 people including 10 soldiers.
A startling revelation has been made in Parliament – some of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels are former trainees of the SANDF.
Rwanda’s president has denied backing accused Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, saying his challenge to a senior US official proves his innocence.
A contingent of about 100 Tanzanian troops arrived in eastern DRC on Saturday, a first step in assembling the new United Nations intervention brigade.
Rebels in the east of DR Congo have said they are prepared to respond to any attack by the United Nations’ first offensive force.
M23 forces have mocked ‘old’ and ‘corrupt’ South African troops ahead of a United Nations deployment.
The M23 rebellion, the latest of a string of armed insurgencies in the DRC’s North Kivu province, has been active for one year now.
The US is working towards giving Bosco Ntaganda, holed up in the country’s embassy in Rwanda, safe passage to the International Criminal Court.
The Democratic Republic’s of Congo’s government troops have given control of two key eastern towns back to the M23 rebel group.
A 4 000-man regional force may not be strong enough to quell the rebels in the DRC, write Mmanaledi Mataboge and Phillip de Wet.
Police have arrested 19 people suspected of being rebels from the Democratic Republic of Congo – including two senior members of the M23 group.
The signing of a peace deal for east DRC, where rebels seized the city of Goma and control significant territory, has been "cancelled", says the UN.
United Nations sanctions experts have claimed soldiers from the DRC’s neighbouring countries assisted M23 rebels in their offensive in Goma.
Even if the M23 rebels leave Goma, as promised, their invasion is a threat to President Joseph Kabila.
The UN has called on foreign countries to stop meddling in the volatile region, and said M23 rebels have made no major moves to withdraw from Goma.
M23 rebels announced they had opened talks with DRC President Joseph Kabila, hours after a regional summit called on them to end their offensive.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame will not attend Saturday’s summit in Uganda seeking a solution to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.