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A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has sentenced 13 soldiers to death for various charges including murder, looting, and cowardice. The verdict was delivered on Tuesday ...
South Africa had tried to avoid having its troops leave through Rwanda, which it thought would give Kigali the satisfaction ...
Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where ...
By the end of 2013, after more than a year and a half of fighting, the Congolese Army, backed by United Nations troops, routed M23. Among the militia’s foot soldiers deemed salvageable ...
Congo has roughly 260,000 soldiers and other security forces, according to the 2025 budget law. Official monthly salaries since 2022 have averaged between $100 and $200 for all ranks, government ...
An elderly shopkeeper in Elisabethville ignored—or perhaps did not hear—a Congolese soldier’s order to get off the sidewalk in front of the heavily guarded National Bank of Katanga last week.
The security source said "more than 1,200 Congolese soldiers have surrendered and are confined" to the airport base of the UN's mission in the DRC. Congolese leader Felix Tshisekedi was to meet ...
Messages obtained by investigators show Moesser conspiring with Christian Malanga to ship explosives and AR-15 rifles to ...
Congolese soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel last week to stand trial for crimes including rape and murder allegedly committed as they fled in the face of a ...
KINSHASA, March 28 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo doubled salaries for soldiers and police on Friday, the finance ministry said, in an apparent bid to boost morale as Rwanda-backed M23 ...