As DRC and Rwanda prepare to sign a long-awaited peace agreement, the spotlight turns to whether this deal can bring lasting ...

Photo: WFP/Benjamin Anguandia. WFP delivered emergency food assistance to displaced families in Goma, DRC. Photo credit Sudan ...

A fifth group of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers has returned from the now terminated Southern African ...

That the Southern African Development Community (SADC) peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now part of Africa’s history doesn’t mean the end of collaborative efforts to ...

The Southern African Development Community(SADC) said Thursday it will begin the final phase of withdrawing its troops from ...

On 27 January, Rwanda-backed Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) forces took control of Goma, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province.The city’s capture and M23’s advances ...

The US has long been the largest donor to global efforts to combat malaria. Aid workers say that Trump administration cuts to foreign aid will lead to more deaths from the disease.

The soldiers were among those defeated and surrounded by M23 fighters during the fall of Goma in January 2025. ... South Africa, and Malawi, who crossed into Rwanda before returning to Tanzania.

The SADC military mission had suffered heavy losses in the previous months, with around a dozen soldiers from South Africa, Malawi, and Tanzania killed as the M23 rebels seized control of Goma.

The withdrawal of SADC troops comes after the M23 took control of eastern Congo’s main city of Goma and seized the second largest city, Bukavu, in offensives over the past two months. Fourteen South ...

DRC foreign minister says M23 rebels and Rwandan troops will have to leave Goma before SADC troops withdraw. The promising agreement between SADC and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Friday to ...

On Friday, the chiefs of staff of the armed forces of South Africa, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania met the M23's military chief Sultani Makenga in the city of Goma, according to a joint text released ...