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

Leaders and ministers from the southern African regional group SADC gathered in the Zimbabwe capital Friday ahead of a summit on the conflict in eastern DR Congo, which has raised concerns for ...

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 ...

Mr Mandrup expressed a similar view, saying South Africa deployed its troops in 2023, ignoring warnings that "you haven't got the capabilities needed, the defence force is in shambles and you're ...

Forces from Mozambique and Rwanda had been deployed to a dense forested area near the border with Tanzania following the ...

But they have flared up again, following the death of the South Africans who were deployed to eastern DR Congo in December 2023 as part of a regional peace-keeping force sent by the Southern African ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, the East African Community (EAC) chair, convened a virtual summit on 29 January to discuss the ...

South Africa and Rwanda's already fraught diplomatic relations have worsened after President Cyril Ramaphosa accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group of killing South African peacekeepers in ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...