CONGOLESE soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel recently to stand trial for crimes including ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

The rebels, backed by Rwanda, are led by ethnic Tutsis ... the back of a truck they had seized, along with its weapons, from the Congolese army. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage.