“It is peaceful here, unlike over there,” said Exauce Shalako, a 20-year-old man from Goma who was lounging on the shore of Lake Kivu in Rwanda one afternoon this month. Mr.

KINSHASA, (March 7, 2025) – About 375,000 children are missing out on education and are vulnerable to violence and recruitment by armed groups in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of ...

T he AFC/M23 rebel movement in eastern DR Congo announced on Friday, February 13 that they had captured Kavumu airport, which is located about 25 kilometres from Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu ...

Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is bustling again with cargo and passenger boats. The lake was quiet for almost a month after rebels captured the port cities of Goma and Bukavu.

The M23 rebels captured the city of Goma around two weeks ago The Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have attacked Congolese government forces in the South Kivu province, breaking a two-day lull in fighting.

The governor of South Kivu province confirmed on Sunday that Rwandan-backed M23 rebels had entered the centre of the provincial capital Bukavu from where he said Congolese troops had withdrawn ...

M23 fighters routed the Congolese army to capture the key provincial capital of Goma in North Kivu last month. Then on Friday, the armed group and Rwandan troops marched largely unchecked into ...

The AFC/M23 rebels accused the Congolese armed forces of using a Sukhoi 25 fighter jet to bomb "densely populated areas of Kalehe," a territory of South Kivu province, and killing 10 people and ...

The rebels have been trying to push south towards Bukavu since they seized Goma, in North Kivu, the largest city in eastern Congo, at the end of last month. Any escalation in fighting could ...