South Africa's ambition to champion the 'global south' is diminished by its military failures, highlighted by the deaths of ...

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

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

They may be on opposite sides of the Congolese battlefield only by proxy, but Pretoria and Kigali are now trading ...

As the rebels gained the upper hand in the battlefield by capturing most of Goma - the biggest city in the east - South ...

Congo’s leader has called on young people to enlist in the army to help ...

Rwanda's Paul Kagame has responded to Cyril Ramaphosa in a terse statement in which he called his South African counterpart dishonest and dared him to a military confrontation...Rwandan President Paul ...

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would close by 2025. On the same day, the Ivorian president said France ...

South Africa's military has said nine soldiers were killed, with Malawi and Uruguay also reporting deaths. The M23 advance on Goma in eastern Congo has reportedly been repelled. The South African ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention ... neocolony in West Africa,” addedEkissi.

No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, but rather his wily South African analog, Jacob Zuma, whose tenure as president from 2009 to 2018 presented an existential threat to the continent’s most solid ...

The Nigerian military said late on Sunday that it had ... Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province militants have mainly operated in Borno state, targeting security forces and civilians ...