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Attacks were carried out by various armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2021 and 2022. The attacks have killed 629 and injured 321 (not including rebel casualties). At least 82 perpetrators were also killed and one injured in these attacks.
20 December – 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election: Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo elect the President, members of the National Assembly, provincial assemblies, and commune councils. 26 December – Twenty-two people are killed by floods in Kasaï-Central. Several houses and structures are damaged, with a ...
The 2023 Goma massacre occurred on August 27, 2023, when a protest erupted in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, against the presence of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) forces across the country. MONUSCO was accused of failing to prevent the violence by militant groups ...
In fiscal year 2023, the U.S. provided $677 million in humanitarian aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo and nearly $596 million to Sudan through international organizations and nongovernmental ...
By 2024, however, Operation Shujaa had a major impact on IS-CAP's propaganda output. For instance, the branch released 280 photos and four videos in 2021, but only 92 photos in 2023. Researchers Caleb Weiss and Ryan O'Farrell stated that IS-CAP's media had been reduced to a "shadow of its former self". [8]
Date Fatalities Notes Belgian Mission - Congo Genocide: 1890 to 1910 10/15 Millions Deaths By King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of Belgium against African Congolese people. In the 19th century, Leopold II, tried to persuade the governance to colonize certain areas of Africa.
The Western DR Congo clashes are a series of attacks by Mobondo militia on armed forces and Teke civilians which started in June 2022. The conflict has an ethnic component, as the Mobondo is mainly recruited from Yaka and other ethnic groups that are migrating into territories traditionally inhabited by Teke.
On the evening of 22 January 2023, the Allied Democratic Forces killed between 17 and 24 people in Makugwe, a village near Beni, North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] The massacre occurred at a bar; the insurgents also looted and set fire to several homes and shops, and kidnapped several people. [ 1 ]