President Joseph Kabila held a two-hour meeting with army officers based in North and South Kivu provinces on Tuesday to insist on military discipline and cohesion.

President Joseph Kabila and the Congolese Army Chief of Staff, General Didier Etumba, arrived in Goma on Monday to deal with the security threat posed by the defections of former rebels integrated in the army under a peace deal.

Parades were held all across the country today to commemorate the 49th anniversary of independence.

A United Nations panel of experts has once again accused Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and his government of supporting warlord Laurent Nkunda in his years-long killing spree in eastern Congo.

Kabila arrived on Sunday in the Nord-Kivu province capital of Goma, a day ahead of an ultimatum to rebels loyal to renegade general Laurent Nkunda to disarm or face a new offensive by the Congolese armed forces (FARDC). Kabila arrived in Goma at 9:30 local time accompanied by the defense minister, the army Chief of Staff and the minister of humanitarian affairs. On Sunday, the UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo (MONUC) said in a statement urged “all dissident troops to join ‘brassage’ immediately, for which MONUC, with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have already made the [...]