Verified cases have surged since January 2025, marking an approximately 150 percent increase compared to December 2024. These violations include sexual violence, killings, maiming, and conscription by ...

The head of the UN Mission in Congo told the Security Council that M23 controls large parts of North Kivu and South Kivu “and ...

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 seized ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing one ... the capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province, before capturing Bukavu, the capital of neighbouring South Kivu, in February.

With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern ... make gains across North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.

mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. A small subset of those Rwandans who entered DRC were Hutu extremists who began organizing militias within the Congo.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured a third major town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding ... the city of Goma in North Kivu province and Bukavu in South Kivu province.

The renewed violence in the South and North Kivu region of the eastern DRC since January has led to the mass displacement of thousands of people and created a climate of fear and uncertainty in the ...

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The front line between the M23 guerrillas and the "Wazalendo" militiamen runs through the Ruzizi plain (in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic ...

The M23 armed group has pushed deeper into the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mineral-rich region after capturing the key cities of Goma and Bukavu – the capitals of North and South Kivu ...

Johannesburg, South Africa (AFP)—The Democratic Republic of Congo’s defence minister began a visit to South Africa Monday aimed at strengthening “strategic defence capabilities” between ...

Ituri is just north of the provinces of North and South Kivu, which at the end of January fell under the control of the anti-government M23 armed group, which the DRC says is backed by neighboring ...