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South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

Parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are under siege by a Rwanda-backed rebel group. The violence has killed UN peacekeepers, overwhelmed hospitals, displaced hundreds of thousands and ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

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