Rex Kazadi Kanda, a 2023 presidential contender and leader of the EKOKI movement, has officially met M23 rebel leadership in Goma, signalling growing civilian-political alignment with the armed ...

Intensifying conflict, inter-community fighting, and resulting displacement are depriving hundreds of thousands of children in Ituri province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the sheer scale of people being displaced from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to escalating conflict, is ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding a dire alarm about escalating food insecurity in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), calling for urgent international action to avert a ...

In a devastating turn of events, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a rapidly unfolding humanitarian disaster. The eastern province of South Kivu has been hit by severe floods ...

Complicating matters is the ambiguous role of regional actors. Uganda has expanded its military presence in North Kivu and Ituri ostensibly to address worsening insecurity and contain M23.

Across the entire eastern region, insecurity is driven by the war’s economic fallout, security gaps and rising activity of armed groups like the Allied Democratic Forces in North Kivu and militia ...

Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda). The advance of M23, a Rwandan ...

North Kivu and Ituri provinces were scheduled to follow this year. But then, everything changed. However, the M23 rebels' offensive in North Kivu has evidently led to a shift in the Congolese ...

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 been ...

The ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) is a Ugandan rebel group that has long established itself in North Kivu and Ituri and terrorizes the local population. In 2019, the ADF announced its affiliation ...

Bintou Keita, who also heads the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC, known as MONUSCO, reported on the instability in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, particularly operations by four armed groups ...