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In April, more than 30 people were killed in Ituri, and at least 17 people were killed in North Kivu province in May. The group originally operated in North Kivu province but has expanded to ...
Speaking to the nation Thursday, President Felix Tshisekedi said there would be a gradual easing of the state of siege in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which includes ending a curfew ...
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) suspended flights in Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces following an attack on one of ...
The DRC government declared a state of siege in North Kivu and neighbouring Ituri province in 2021 in an attempt to stem rampant violence in the country's vast mineral-rich east [File: Brent ...
GENEVA — Distressing trends are unfolding in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where resurgent violence between non-state armed groups and government forces has reverberated across the ...
In 2014, the group escalated attacks in Beni territory of North Kivu province, later expanding into Irumu and Mambasa in Ituri province. A local news outlet reported that more than 200 individuals ...
The violence by the rebels is part of an overall worsening of the crisis in eastern Congo, with fighting by armed groups intensifying and expanding in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces ...
Shujaa has pushed the ADF, or Allied Democratic Forces, into remote and inaccessible areas across North Kivu and neighbouring Ituri. There, far from Ugandan and Congolese capitals, civilians have ...
South Kivu, together with North Kivu and Ituri, are the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for decades in the throes of instability caused by various armed groups of ...
A series of military defeats in the late 1990s forced group members out of Uganda's western Rwenzori mountains and into North Kivu, where their activities centred on the towns of Beni and Ituri.
"They killed them using machete and other weapons." Congo's government declared a state of siege in North Kivu and Ituri in 2021, in an attempt to stem rampant militia violence in the country's ...
Since 1996, the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu have been stirred by multiple wars triggered by an increasing number of armed groups, weak state institutions, a dysfunctional army ...