Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to IS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of the country bordering Uganda. The attack comes as eastern Congo may see an ...

Kibetsi is one of nearly a million Congolese who have returned to their homes since the M23 rebel group — backed by Rwanda ...

In December 2024 and January 2025, while the M23 rebel group backed by Rwanda has continued fighting and seizing key towns in the Eastern Congo’s North and South Kivu provinces, several Chinese ...

The mineral-rich provinces of South and North Kivu along the eastern flank of the Democratic Republic of Congo should be ...

Untransparent logging in the Congo In eastern DRC, logging mainly occurs in the provinces of Ituri (in the east, close to the border with Uganda), Bas-Uélé (in the north), and Tshopo (mid-northeast).

Rest of World News: As the M23 rebels advanced on Bukavu during January and February, several villages along Lake Kivu were turned into battlefields. Though fighters from.

The emergency kits include medication to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, as well as unwanted pregnancies.

That was in 2020, three years after Shaw, a former teacher, and Congolese partner Archip Lobo Ngumba built the DRC's first commercial solar minigrid in the small town of Beni in Congo's North Kivu ...

Press Release - When MONUSCO's helicopter landed in Goma, emotions ran high. For Bintou Keita, Head of the United Nations Mission in the DRC, this return to a city deeply affected by conflict ...

Funding cuts to international aid organizations mean that medical assistance has dried up for vulnerable people affected by conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Since the Rwandan genocide, the ongoing conflict in east Congo has killed 6 million people, in attacks, famines and unchecked disease outbreaks stemming from the fighting.