A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider regional war.

Killings, kidnappings and forced labor are taking place in Kamanyola, the village in the Ruzizi Plain (in the province of South Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo) that is on the front line between the pro-Rwandan M23 rebel movement that controls the area and the pro-government "Wazalendo" militiamen (or Bazalendo,

SAKE, DR CONGO -When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the fighting

More than 2,500 schools have been affected by an ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one senior official said.

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues experienced during those days of terror.

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In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the serious human rights violations and

Faith healer Julie Kaviavu threw a handful of grains into the fire and lit a cigarette as she prepared to ask the dead for advice -- a common practice in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.

A statement issued by the Education Ministry indicated that 1,483 schools have been closed in North Kivu province while 1,111 are closed in South Kivu province, affecting 1.1 million children.

Muslims in a city recently captured by Rwanda-backed fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo face a more