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Anselme Hamundwate, 23, right, and Mumbere Hamundwate, 25, work in a field in Katwa. After months of fighting in Lubero ...
"I think now we're a little safer," says Anselme Hamundwate, 23, who burned his family's field in Kirumba before he began ...
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The ICRC’s teams carried out a study in April and May 2025 of 109 health centres in North and South Kivu, where the ICRC operates. The results – whether on the overall risk of disease or the health of ...
Supported by MONUSCO, the initiative brought attention to the hardships faced by children in conflict-affected North Kivu and reaffirmed the commitment of stakeholders to their protection.
The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...
Zawadi Sifa who has been fleeing fighting from camp to camp, shares food with her seven children in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2025.
Bienfait, whose name is the French expression meaning 'well done,'' lives alone in his home community in North Kivu province; the rest of the family fled to escape escalating violence.
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief is urging more global support for displaced people in eastern Congo. On Thursday, he visited refugee camps in North and South Kivu provinces. He described ...
The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province, followed by Bukavu in ...