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

Kagame's comments clearly suggested that he wants South Africa to back off from DR Congo, where its military involvement ...

Four more South African soldiers have been killed in fighting with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accuses Rwanda of backing M23 rebels behind escalating crisis in eastern Democratic ...

In Democratic Republic of Congo this week, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, the country's largest eastern city. A force composed of South African troops and Southern African allies that had ...

A United Nations official says two U.N. peacekeepers from South Africa have been killed fighting M23 rebels in eastern Congo ...

At least 13 of its soldiers, who are part of a SADC peacekeeping mission, have been killed in the conflict pitting ...

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 ...

So, South Africa's president appears to have a difficult choice – keep his soldiers in DR Congo and risk further deaths, or the embarrassment of pulling them out, presumably after negotiating ...

There is a fresh tension in the Southern Africa bloc following the sound of war note between South Africa and Rwanda over the ongoing war in DR Congo.