In terms of access to combat theaters, journalists from Goma, Bukavu, or Bunia have difficulty reporting live. “Many are ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society ...

At least 209,000 individuals from these sites have arrived spontaneously in Masisi, Nyiragongo, and Rutshuru territories, where basic services are not equipped for the sudden surge in population.

Increased violence in the three easternmost provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is raising deep concern ...

M23 now controls key towns around the park: among others, Kanya Bayonga, Rutshuru, Rwindi, Sake, and Masisi. Furthermore, its main training base is in Tchanzu, a village next to Virunga’s ...

A UNITED Nations (UN) expert has called for urgent support for human rights defenders in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human ...

GENEVA (5 March 2025) – As the situation continues to deteriorate in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN expert today called for urgent, practical support for human rights defenders in the ...

According to the U.N., “in a video shot on November 15, 2022, at least 25 combatants, members of RDF, were shown marching in columns in Kiwanja in Rutshuru territory (eastern DRC), which had ...

In North Kivu’s Rutshuru territory, for example, Batwa people are adopting household appliances and relying less on firewood. Who will bring electricity to rural areas and the Batwa? The real ...