![A soldier looks on as a woman pans for gold near an open pit at a mine in Central African Republic [File: Siegfried Modola/Reuters]](https://www.military.africa/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Democratic-Republic-of-Congo-mining-armed-militia-350x250.webp)
Peace is Negotiable, Access is Not: How Africa’s Mineral Belts Became War Economies
On February 18, 2026, a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo was supposed to begin. It did not. M23 ...
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M23 Downs DRC CH-4 and TB2 Drones Amid Kivu Escalation
Allied Forces of the Congo-March 23 Movement (AFC-M23) rebels claimed on November 15, 2025, to have shot down a Chinese-made ...
Fiber Optic FPV drones emerge on African battlefields
The landscape of armed conflict in Africa is evolving rapidly, with advanced technologies once confined to major global wars now ...
BlackWater to secure and tax DR Congo’s vast mineral wealth
Erik Prince, a prominent supporter of former US President Donald Trump and the founder of the private military company Blackwater, ...
Ugandan troops enter DRC to combat militias
Amid rising regional tensions, last Tuesday, Uganda’s military announced the deployment of troops to Bunia, a town in eastern Democratic ...
Canadian Troops redeployed from Eastern Congo as M23 rebels advance
In response to escalating conflict in eastern Congo, Canadian soldiers have been temporarily relocated from a major city in the ...
SANDF sends reinforcements to Congo
South Africa has recently deployed additional troops and military equipment to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following the deaths ...
Romanian mercenaries arrive in Rwanda from Goma
More than 200 European mercenaries, including dozens of Romanians, who supported the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in fighting M23 ...
The Fall of Goma: All You Need to Know
The news that the M23 Movement (March 23rd Movement) captured the city of Goma in the North Kivu province of ...
Rwanda and South African military powers
a closer look at how Rwanda and South African military powers compare
UN Peacekeepers activate Operation Springbok III against M23 rebels in Goma
The United Nations (UN) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has activated Operation Springbok III in response to ...
South African peacekeepers clash with Congo’s M23 rebels in Goma
Gunfire echoed through the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday as M23 rebels and ...
![An M23 rebel stands with his weapon during a ceremony to mark the withdrawal from their positions in the town of Kibumba, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Friday, December 23, 2022 [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]](https://www.military.africa/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AP22357597175593-350x250.jpg)
Rwanda and Uganda backs M23 rebels in DR Congo
Uganda is backing M23 rebels fighting across its border in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN experts say, warning that ...
DRC buys Russian helicopters to quell M23 rebellion
The Congolese Air Force (French: Force Aérienne Congolaise, or FAC) will be equipped with Russian combat and transport helicopters to ...