A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

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

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than ... notoriously in the 1990s when two huge conflicts, dubbed Africa's World Wars, resulted in the ...