This while a video has been circulating on social media showing South African soldiers waving a white flag. SANDF head of communications, Siphiwe Dlamini, has clarified what is depicted in the video.

The South African National Defence Force denied that a video of forces waving a white flag meant that the SANDF forces ...

Merely absorbing armed groups into a reserve force does little to address the underlying causes of the eastern DRC crisis.

Curious, I opened the attachment. It was a photo of some of the carnage in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – to be precise, the photo of corpses of those killed in the DRC’s never ...

In addition to the possible Ebola outbreak, there is an outbreak of Marburg fever, caused by a related virus, in Tanzania, which shares a border with eastern DRC. Global health experts said ...

Defence Minister Angie Motshekga and senior defence officials have expressed deep condolences to the families of the fallen soldiers. Meanwhile, the South African National Defence Union is ...

She says this allows states not to accept responsibility for armed conflict and war crimes. Meanwhile, the DRC told the UN the advance of Rwandan forces into its territory is a Declaration of War.

Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma after entering eastern Congo's largest city. U.N. officials reported ...

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has confirmed that four more South African soldiers have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... a white flag raised, which is ...

The DRC has accused neighbouring Rwanda of fuelling the M23 rebellion and has now severed diplomatic ties with it. Rwanda has denied the claims but last year admitted it has troops and missile ...

The M23 rebels captured Goma City, the biggest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on January 27 after five years of fighting that started at the Bunagana border, which Uganda ...