South Africa and Rwanda go head-to-head over DR Congo war
Jan 30, 2025 · Rwanda says South Africa is in “no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator” in DR Congo.
Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo say they plan to take …
Jan 30, 2025 · Rwanda-backed rebels who have captured eastern Congo’s largest city say they plan to take their rebellion to the capital and seek to gain political power.
South African troops are dying in the DRC: why they’re there and …
Jan 31, 2025 · The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
DR Congo conflict: At least 700 killed since Sunday, says UN
Jan 31, 2025 · Sadc has sent peacekeeping troops, primarily from South Africa, to DR Congo to combat armed groups like the M23 and restore peace in the mineral-rich region after decades of unrest.
Congo losses expose limit of South Africa's diplomatic ambitions
Jan 30, 2025 · South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in eastern Congo fighting have exposed an ...
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key …
Jan 28, 2025 · South Africa’s military confirmed Tuesday that four more South African soldiers deployed in DR Congo as part of the UN peacekeeping mission there had died, only days after nine were killed in ...
DR Congo conflict: What is the fighting in Goma about? - BBC
Jan 31, 2025 · After a rapid advance in the region, fighters from the M23 rebel group have captured almost all of Goma – a major city of more than a million people in the east of DR Congo. Sitting on the ...
A Conflict in Congo - The New York Times
Jan 31, 2025 · South Africa sent troops to fight with a U.N. force alongside the Congolese Army. Around the turn of the century, the Great Lakes region of Africa was at the center of a regional war that raged ...
Congo losses expose limit of South Africa's diplomatic ambitions
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in ...
Paul Kagame and the war in Congo: Here’s what we know
Jan 31, 2025 · On January 27, M23 rebels, a group synonymous with the March 23 Movement claimed that they had taken over Goma, on the East of DR Congo. Currently, a new dimension has been added to the war with heated exchanges between the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa and the Rwandan President, Paul ...
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