Lubutu currently hosts some 43,000 displaced people from the Walikale territory in North Kivu, a region partially controlled by the M23 rebels. The Wazalendo are pro-government militias that support ...

The local office of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) in the North Kivu province, where the dead hippos were found, recommended precautionary measures including avoiding ...

This report was finalised in early January 2025. Since then, the situation in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has undergone significant developments.

The group already controls the city of Goma in North Kivu province and Bukavu in South Kivu province. The latest conquest comes after the surprise meeting on Tuesday between presidents of Congo ...

In January, M23 seized control of Goma, the capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province, before capturing Bukavu, the capital of neighbouring South Kivu, in February. They have since continued to ...

North Kivu Province of east-central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This decision was made after the withdrawal of insurgents eastward from the town of Walikale towards the towns of ...