DRC-SA Security Pact | SA to strengthen ties with DRC

JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa are planning to ink a security agreement.

This is 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.

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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.