The relationship between the two countries has escalated since the 1994 Tutsi genocide, which claimed the lives of 10 Belgian ...

The group's first major advance was at the end of January with the taking of Goma – a city in North Kivu province that is home to more than a million people. Sitting on the border with Rwanda ...

The province of North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is currently at the center of a worrying humanitarian tragedy. Since the end of 2024, an upsurge in violence has pushed the total ...

Nyiragongo territory of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo April 14, 2025. PHOTO/REUTERS Twangiza Mining, a gold miner operating in the rebel-controlled South Kivu ...

Lubutu currently hosts some 43,000 displaced people from the Walikale territory in North Kivu, a region partially controlled by the M23 rebels. The Wazalendo are pro-government militias that support ...

Goma, North Kivu - On 18 April, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) health worker was shot dead in his home by a gunman in military uniform in Masisi, North Kivu province, in eastern Democratic ...

The M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo reemerged from dormancy in 2022 and has since advanced across the country's troubled North Kivu province, sending hundreds of thousands of ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that trucks packed with cereals, beans and cooking oil reached the city of Beni in North Kivu province from neighbouring Uganda, amid clashes between Rwanda ...

In addition, due to high levels of insecurity and large-scale violence against civilians, some 5.6 million Congolese are internally displaced in the DRC, with over 4 million in the eastern provinces ...