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South African Troops Are Dying in the DRC - Why They're There and What's Going Wrong [analysis]
The death of South African soldiers on a Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sparked fierce debate about the deployment of South African ...
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Another SANDF soldier dies in DRC
JOHANNESBURG - The South African National Defence Force has announced the death of another soldier in the Democratic Republic ...
Families of SANDF soldiers in the DRC anxious as conflict escalates
The war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become a focal point of anxiety for the families of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers stationed in the region, ...
South African troops are dying in the DRC: why they’re there and what’s going wrong
The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
Congo losses expose limit of South Africa's diplomatic ambitions
South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...
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How Congo crisis complicates Raila’s AUC bid as regional tensions boil over
Already the Ruto-led talks started on a wrong footing on Wednesday, January 29 after Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi ...
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DRC crisis: Sadc convenes Extraordinary Summit
Breaking news.   Sadc Chairperson President Mnangagwa is expected to preside over the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State ...
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SA Urges Rwanda to Withdraw Forces from DRC Amid Escalating Conflict
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, has called on Rwanda to halt its support ...
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...
Protesters attack embassies in Congo’s capital as security forces try to slow rebels in the east
United Nations officials say there were dead bodies on the streets of eastern Congo’s largest city where hospitals are ...
Congo’s forces try to slow Rwanda-backed rebels in the east as protests break out in the capital
Residents reported gunfire overnight in Goma, a city of 2 million people which the rebels claimed to have captured on Monday.