On Friday, the military retook the Republican Palace, the prewar seat of the government, in a major symbolic victory for the ...

Rwanda on Tuesday described as "unfortunate" claims by Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye that it was planning to attack ...

At least six police personnel were killed in Kenya and four were injured in an attack on a police camp by suspected Islamist militants in Garissa county in the country’s east on the border with ...

Even after agreeing on a ceasefire M23 rebels took over the town of Walikale in North Kivu pouring cold water on Doha deal as not binding to them.

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 seized ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive presidents are said to have kept it weak for fear of a coup.

When U.S. inflation-adjusted military spending fell by one-third in the 1990s, the U.S. share of global military spending only fell by six percentage points because other countries, particularly ...

Rwanda denies providing the M23 with military assistance. But a UN experts’ report found that Rwanda maintains around 4,000 troops in the eastern DRC in support of the armed group. Rwanda also ...