DStv Channel 403 Thursday, 07 November 2024

SA to strengthen ties with DRC

 

JOHANNESBURG - The DRC and South Africa are planning to ink a security agreement as militias continue to occupy large parts of eastern Congo.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged while in Kinshasa to keep helping the DRC fight insecurity and poverty.

At least 8 dead in village attack in eastern DR Congo

Armed groups have plagued much of the eastern DRC for three decades.

But the M23 rebel group has seized territory and displaced about a million people in the region since 2021.

The DRC has repeatedly accused its smaller neighbour, Rwanda, of backing the Tutsi-led M23.

 

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