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

However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one of the deadliest— in DR Congo— over fatalities, public opposition and budget constraints.On March 13, leaders of the Southern African ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

Fun fact: The British guinea coin, first minted in 1663, was named after the region of Guinea in West Africa because the gold used to produce it came from there. On opposite sides of the Congo ...

When global powers chant never again after atrocities, we must ask: do they truly mean repentance, or do they mean never again without profit? Belgium's colonial strategy had one objective: relentless ...

Two years later, during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ... it as a tool of soft power and put his country on the map as a major player in nature conservation (AI, 12/10/23). The courts in Congo ...

Congo map. From south Atlantic to Zambia (Lualaba River ... 4.2. Soils of the Congo Basin According to the Soil and Terrrain database of Central Africa [14], the main reference soil groups within the ...

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

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.