The Ugandan troop deployment comes as the Congolese army faces a major challenge from rebel groups seeking to control the mineral-rich region.

The Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers on February 18, 2025, entered the eastern DR Congo's ;Ituri Province capital Bunia, the capital of ;the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Uganda army ...

Government troops clashed with their allied militias as they attempted to retreat from a key city, as a major rebel group ...

Kigali accuses its colonial master of “an aggressive campaign together with DRC” to sabotage access to its development ...

The development comes days after CDF, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said UPDF would deploy in Bunia, which is located about 40 ...

The invasion and occupation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the extraction of its natural resources, which ...

Uganda's army on Tuesday said it had deployed troops in the town of Bunia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to fight ...

M23 fighters have made rapid advances in recent months ...

M23 rebels – a Rwanda-backed militia – took control of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu, on ...

After the M23 Rwanda-backed rebels Feb. 16 occupied Bukavu, a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Catholic ...

Rwanda has suspended its 2024-2029 development cooperation with Belgium, accusing the European country of interfering with regional peace efforts and politicising development finance.