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Rooivalks may return from the DRC
According to highly-placed sources in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), Rooivalk attack helicopters deployed to the United Nations Mission in the […]
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The Strange Tale of the Georgians in the DRC
[This is is an edited version of the article that first appeared at Bellingcat, and is reproduced here with the author’s permission.] Around January 30, 2017, news […]
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Everything ADF
Beni, North Kivu, DR Congo: End of the day after few flights in Beni area under Sukola 1 mission. Photo MONUSCO/Uruguayan Aviation Unit As one of the higher priorities […]
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The Man in Charge of MONUSCO
The new force commander of the United Nations’ uniformed mission in the DRC, MONUSCO, has been announced. RICHARD STUPART talks to the new commander of the […]
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'This time it’s over' - MONUSCO shows its teeth
It’s been a good year for MONUSCO’s mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the defeat of M23 in 2013 followed by decisive actions against the ADF, […]
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ADF-NALU: DRC's new, old threat?
Depending on who you talk to, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF, or ADF-NALU) are everything from a minor player in the DRC’s security landscape, to a rising […]
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The Last Days of M23
It was an assault that few DRC cynics thought possible. Last week, with the assistance of the United Nations’s newly established Force Intervention Brigade, troops […]
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Rooivalk attack helicopters perform well in first combat action against M23
Yesterday, at approximately 17h00 Congolese time, two South African Air Force Rooivalk helicopters attached to the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade flew the […]
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How M23 was rolled back
In just four days, M23 has been dislodged from every one of the strongholds it once held. This surprisingly rapid reversal of fortunes for the group was unprecedented […]
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The FIB Goes To War
At 07h50 yesterday morning, the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) fired the opening […]
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Making chaos profitable in the DRC
There lies a very simple answer to why some of Africa’s bloodiest, most brutal wars never seem to end. They are not really wars in the conventional view. The […]
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Podcast: African Defence Roundup of Mali, Egypt, DRC
African Defence Review’s Richard Stupart discusses the current situation in Mali, Cairo and the Eastern DRC with a mix of analysts and journalists currently on the […]