Given the country’s past, cultural resistance to becoming a soldier is high. Can leaders change minds to meet a changing ...

Local officials say a Congolese soldier has shot and killed two of his colleagues while a third died of critical injuries in an altercation in the country’s east that left others wounded, local offici ...

Human Rights Watch says at least 120 children have been kidnapped by jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique in recent ...

If truth had a face, it would wince every time Human Rights Watch (HRW) and its ilk opened their report-writing laptops in the Great Lakes region. For an organization that prides itself on objectivity ...

Child soldiers are still being used in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite promises to stop recruiting them.

After long logistical delays, the first group of South African troops deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the SADC mission is on its way home.

A State Department spokesperson did not respond to NBC News’ questions about Rwanda’s role in the conflict in eastern Congo, including evidence that its soldiers were fighting in the area ...

Open secret. From the start, Rwanda has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal its intervention in the Kivu provinces in eastern Congo, which went from a couple of hundred soldiers in 2021 to an ...

FORT STEWART, Ga. – Army Spc. Blake E. Bedford, 27, was convicted of rape and sexually abusing a child at the conclusion of his court-martial May 27 at the Fort Stewart Courtroom. Bedford, a ...

A soldier based at Fort Bragg, N.C., will spend 15 years in military prison after pleading guilty to raping an 11-year-old child and other child sex crimes, Army officials said.

Congo is grappling with soaring military costs and declining tax revenues due to an offensive by Rwandan-backed rebels, ... A Congolese soldier stands guard as he waits for the ceremony to repatriate ...