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What You Need to Know: Mozambique’s Foreign Minister Verónica Macamo has announced the withdrawal of the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) Military Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) from the country's northern Cabo Delgado region, following an extraordinary summit of the SADC’s organ on Defence, Politics, and Security held in Lusaka over the weekend.  “Africa has many problems and currently SADC has two...

The UN has announced that eight of their peacekeepers belonging to MONUSCO, the UN's mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), were wounded during clashes with the DRC's M23 rebels on Saturday. The clashes took place around the town of Sake, which is approximately 20km from the North Kivu provincial capital of Goma. Combat has been ongoing around...

What's Happening The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reinstated the death penalty after banning it 21 years ago, in 2003. The DRC's Justice Ministry released a statement that claimed the ban on the death penalty was allowing those accused of espionage and treason to escape "proper punishment." The ministry said the penalty will only be applied to those involved...

Further Dialogue Rwandan President Paul Kagame has again agreed to meet with the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi. President Kagame agreed to the meeting during dialogue with Angolan President Joao Lourenco in the Angolan capital of Luanda. Angola has arisen as one of the primary mediators between Rwanda and the DRC, two nations which are...

What You Need to Know: Following the deaths of two SANDF soldiers killed when a mortar bomb hit their barracks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month, two more have died in an apparent murder-suicide.  The soldiers involved in the incident have not been named although an official report states that, “the incident occurred when one of...