Violence and road blockages have made it impossible to transport people and vital supplies to medical facilities.

Learn about UNHCR’s work in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

Contrary to the widespread belief that pre-colonial Africa was entirely without borders, African kingdoms including the Kingdom of Rwanda had clearly defined territorial boundaries. Rwanda, in ...

Four pictures that won the World Press Photo Contest 2025 from different categories highlighted the amplified environmental ...

After the city fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 group, authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo stopped supplying cash to banks in M23-controlled areas. Banks have since ... Boats embarking on ...

After the city fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 group, authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo stopped supplying cash to banks in M23-controlled areas ... embarking on Lake Kivu towards ...

In 2023 for instance, at least 400 people died in areas bordering Lake Kivu when torrential rains forced the lake’s water to overflow. Last month, the country’s capital was overrun by flood ...

Located in Rwanda's Western Province, Lake Kivu lies on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Covering a total surface area of 2,730 square kilometers, it is Rwanda's ...

It also sells manufactured goods from China, shipped through the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam or Kenya's Mombasa before entering the DRC via the "Petite Barrière" border crossing or the airport.

The Kivu provinces ... zone — an area covering approximately 10,865 hectares (26,868 acres) in the park’s southern sector, east of the Nyiragongo volcano and bordering Goma — experienced ...