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

Congo’s dark history spans centuries and lingers even into the present day. Though the most recent civil war ended in 2003 ... charitable foundation, “The People’s Portfolio.” ...

On 27 January the M23, a militia based in the east of DR Congo (DRC) and backed by the Rwandan army, seized control of Goma, ...

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is once again in the ... In the early 1990s, the DRC saw a spillover of civil war and subsequent genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.

It accuses Congo's military of joining forces ... Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic quota system ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, eight sources said on Wednesday, in an apparent violation of a unilateral ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, eight sources said on Wednesday, in an apparent violation of a unilateral ...

It accuses Congo’s military of joining forces ... Under the peace deal that ended Burundi’s 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic quota system ...

beginning his career as aide-de-camp to now-President Paul Kagame during his insurgency in the Rwandan Civil War. He led Rwandan-backed rebel forces during the First Congo War that saw the ...