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With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in ... in January and went on to make gains across North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. The region has a history ...
In January, M23 seized control of Goma, the capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province ... The latest round of conflict escalated in December 2024 after peace talks in Angola between the ...
A new Human Rights Watch report documents laws-of-war violations by parties to the armed conflict in Congo’s North Kivu province, which may amount to war crimes. Over 100 armed groups are active ...
Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately ... mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. A small subset of those Rwandans who entered DRC ...
The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation ... Rwanda denies backing the rebels. Map locates Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda.
In the North Kivu conflict, the DRC accuses Rwanda of supporting the M23 rebels. The government has vowed to crash the rebellion, even in the face of the recent setbacks. The M23 wants "direct ...
The UN warned that the raging conflict in North Kivu had displaced more than 400,000 people this year and could spark a regional war. “The number of displacements is now over 400,000 people this ...
The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 ... the taking of Goma – a city in North Kivu province that is home to more than a million ...
The military governor of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, local authorities say, as M23 rebel ...