Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Congo's presidential spokesperson ... A close ally of President Paul Kagame for decades, Kabarebe has played a central part in a string of Rwanda-backed insurgencies in Congo since the mid 1990s.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame attends his inauguration ceremony ... Kagame has won every presidential election he has contested, each time with more than 93 per cent of the ballot.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame ... elected for a fourth presidential term with no less than 99 percent of the vote. "A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader," Kagame told Jeune Afrique ...

In an African country, ministers do not have official cars or residences. There, these public officials rent their own residence with their accommodation allowance.

Congo's presidential ... through Rwanda. African leaders on Monday appointed the former Presidents of Kenya and Nigeria and the ex-Prime Minister of Ethiopia to mediate the ongoing peace process. A ...

DAKAR, Senegal — 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 ...