A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider regional war.
The M23 rebels took control of the North Kivu mining town a day after Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame called for an ...
M23 seizes mining hub, with rebel alliance leader saying call for a ceasefire from DRC and Rwanda ‘doesn’t concern us’.
Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately ... mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. A small subset of those Rwandans who entered DRC ...
The health system is under severe strain, facing overcrowded hospitals and shortages of vital medicines and equipment.
Yet the conflict is having another significant and often overlooked impact: on the environment. The Kivu provinces ... for ...
Goma , capital of North Kivu province , was seized by the M23 as part of a lightning offensive which has seen the group occupy swathes of territory in the eastern DRC. Then in early February the M23 ...