The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

In late January, 14 soldiers of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) lost their lives while fighting M23 ...

Tanzanian economist Frannie Léautier, a former VP at the AfDB and World Bank, backs Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah for the top ...

Flags are flying half-mast in South Africa as bodies of deceased soldiers are being repatriated, but questions about the state of the country’s military remain.

THE INDEPENDENT | 14 bodies of South African soldiers who were killed while in battle alongside Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) soldiers and coalition forces in Goma city North ...

At crisis talks in Harare, the Southern African Development Community reaffirmed its support of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's independence. But the escalating conflict weighs heavy on the ...

Leaders from east and southern Africa call on all warring parties - including the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels - to meet within ...

The Southern African Developing Community and the East African Community met for a Summit in Tanzania to discuss a ceasefire between the DRC and M23 rebels.

Leaders from the Southern African Development Community met Friday in Zimbabwe to discuss the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the government and M23 rebels. The 16-nation ...

Four more South African soldiers have been killed in fighting with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said, taking the number of South African peacekeepers killed to 13 ...

On Saturday, Congo's army said it fended off an M23 offensive toward Goma with the help of its allied forces, including U.N. troops and soldiers from the Southern African Development Community ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, where rebels are threatening to overthrow the Congolese government, but ...