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The Kivu conflict is an umbrella term for a series of protracted armed conflicts in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo which have occurred since the end of the Second Congo War.
9 February - 60 ADF fighters attacked the village of Makeke, North Kivu, and killed seven people. 40 of them were later captured by the FARDC. [40] Down in South Kivu the Ngumino raided Musika village in territory. The attackers wounded two men and set fire to four houses. [41]
With the fall of Goma nearly all of North Kivu is under M23 control. [30] As M23 captured most of the city, the rebel group's forces in the South Kivu province along the western shore of Lake Kivu began an offensive in the direction of the provincial capital Bukavu, about 125 miles (201 km) away from Goma, [78] on January 29. A senior Rwandan ...
The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, earlier in the week was a dramatic escalation in a region that has seen decades of conflict involving multiple armed groups.
Most of those forced to flee their homes live in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika, according to the data collected by the U Conflict uproots record 6.9 million ...
This is the second town seized by the M23 group in as many days in the mineral-rich North Kivu province. The group has taken control of vast swathes of eastern DR Congo since 2021, forcing ...
While traveling through the village of Kagogo, a group of Congolese reinforcements were ambushed by Twiganeho-Makanika on January 4. [6] The ambush sparked a battle, where the Congolese military stated it killed 18 militiamen and lost two soldiers, with five being injured. [6]
The Kipupu massacre (French: massacre de Kipupu) occurred on 16 July 2020 in the South Kivu village of Kipupu in the Mwenga Territory in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gunmen belonging to the Ngumino and Twiganeho militias of the Banyamulenge community attacked the village and reportedly killed 220 people according to provincial ...