South Africa’s participation in the now-defunct Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (SAMIDRC) was once lauded as an example of the country’s ...

Rex Kazadi Kanda, a 2023 presidential contender and leader of the EKOKI movement, has officially met M23 rebel leadership in ...

But victims of the Kisangani war, between Uganda and Rwanda on Congolese soil 25 years ago, are yet to be compensated.  The ...

CLASHES persist despite an agreement signed in April aimed at establishing a truce between the Democratic Republic of Congo government and March 23 Movement–Congo River Alliance (M23–AFC) armed groups ...

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 ...

Gold-rich Ituri has long been hit by conflict between ethnic militia as well as attacks by the Islamic State-linked group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). It lies just north of North and South ...

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 ...