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Date Location Dead Injured Details 4 January Mwenda, Beni territory, North Kivu: 22 unknown 22 people were killed when the ADF attack the village of Mwenda with machetes and guns. [21] 5 January Baboa Bokoe chiefdom, Ituri: 4 unknown Three civilians and one soldier was kill in a FPIC attack on three villages setting fire to multiple homes. [22 ...
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 ...
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.
Over the course of more than a year, the M23 militias have escalated their attacks in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The M23, a primarily Tutsi rebellion that was defeated in 2013 , resumed their armed struggle at the end of 2021, citing the Congolese government 's failure to protect their interests, which include ...
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 ...
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 ]
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.