With the fiscal framework for South Africa’s 2025/26 national budget approved – by a small majority in Parliament this week – ...

On 13 March, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) announced the termination and phased withdrawal of its military deployment in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This ...

Based on the SAMIDRC experience, several steps are necessary to ensure that future SADC missions are successful and enhance the regional bloc’s capability to fulfill its mutual defence mandate, say ...

This is the Bambiro base of South African contingent deployed to DR Congo in late 2023 as part of a three-nation combat force ...

FDLR is a UN and US-blacklisted terrorist organization founded by military and paramilitary extremists linked to the 1994 ...

The promising agreement between SADC and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Friday to facilitate the “immediate withdrawal” of trapped SADC troops from Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

There has been a feeling of regret on whether the momentum for peace was actually lost in abrupt change of the military ...

M23 rebels in the Eastern DRC are facilitating the withdrawal of SADC Mission troops from Goma. This includes SA National ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

SADC leaders announce a phased withdrawal of peacekeeping forces from the DRC, responding to escalating violence and the ...

The size of the SADC deployment has never been made public but analysts estimate it to number around 1,300 troops.

The South African Development Community Mission, known as SAMIDRC, was deployed in December 2023 to support the DRC government to restore peace and security in eastern DRC. FILE: A SAMIDRC ...