By Elodie Toto “Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa ...
Local authorities and civil society leaders confirmed 2,500 prisoners escaped and there was widespread looting after M23 took ...
It was this force that helped defeat the M23 in 2013. Monusco has been the target of anger from ordinary Congolese who see it as failing to do its job. President Félix Tshisekedi, deeming the ...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) strongly condemned the looting of its warehouses in Bukavu, South Kivu, amid escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...
M23 had declared a ceasefire only days earlier ... In December 2023, after a request from Kinshasa, the UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO began a phased withdrawal; however, that has not concluded.
Clashes last week in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, which saw the M23 armed group and Rwandan forces seize control, have ...
They were hit last week in clashes between the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group M23 near ... Stevenazzi met with relatives of the Monusco Uruguayan troops.