Monusco

Each unaddressed attack undermines the UN’s legitimacy and reinforces perceptions of impotence

M23 president Bertrand Bisimwa accused the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo of failing the people of eastern DRC

Kigali denies that it is supporting the rebels in a bid to control vast mineral resources

Clashes broke out again at the start of October after six months of relative calm, pitting rebels against the national army

East African leaders are mobilising armies to intervene in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Decades ago, Zimbabwean soldiers came to Kinshasa’s aid and learnt harsh…

Many of the former child combatants are overwhelmed by the horrors they have witnessed in a part of the country that has been ravaged by violence for more than 25 years

The continent’s interconnectedness is what will be its catalyst for recovery

Instead, it masks the paucity of effective government and is not resulting in development

Presidential, legislative and provincial elections had been scheduled for Sunday but on Thursday the election commission ordered the postponement

The Catholic church had called for rallies around the country despite a government ban on all demonstrations since September 2016

Violence continues in the eastern DRC after an attack from an armed group left three South African soldiers injured.

The UN has called the M23 rebels’ move of enforcing a curfew in areas in the DRC under their control "completely unacceptable".

Zuma has informed Parliament of the deployment of 1 345 SANDF members for service in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nineteen NGOs have written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon to express concern over a new "robust" brigade to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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.