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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.
This is a list of conflicts in Democratic Republic of the Congo arranged chronologically from the early modern period to present day. This list includes nationwide and international wars, including: wars of independence , liberation wars , colonial wars , undeclared wars , proxy wars , territorial disputes , and world wars .
Throughout the conflict, rebel troops have carried out raids and massacres across the DRC, resulting in heavy civilian casualties. In October 2021, the Allied Democratic Forces launched a bombing campaign in Uganda, leading to the intervention of the Ugandan military a year later, which has pursued a policy of airstrikes against ADF targets.
DR Congo Central African Republic: LRA: Ongoing. Small scale LRA activity continues in eastern DRC, and the CAR; Dongo Rebellion (2009) DR Congo Rwanda: RPD: Victory. Rwandan-Congolese forces recaptured Dongo; Katanga Insurgency (2011–present) DR Congo Benin Egypt: Mai Mai Kata Katanga: Ongoing. Exodus of around 600,000 refugees; M23 ...
In the DR Congo, reactions to the start of Operation Shujaa were negative or mixed. Many Congolese expressed opposition to the foreign intervention due to Uganda's destructive role in the Second Congo War, with Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege and activist group Lutte pour le changement expressing criticism.
Rwanda also said that the Congo had fired rockets into Western Rwanda from the direction of Bunagana. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] The UN called for a ceasefire between the two countries, [ 33 ] but on 12 June, the DRC alleged that Rwanda intended to occupy the city of Bunagana, [ 9 ] which M23 forces would then capture one day later.
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 ...
The pygmy Batwa, regionally also called Bambuti [4] or Bambote, [5] are often exploited and allegedly enslaved [1] by the Luba and other Bantu groups. While the pygmies never organized militarily to resist previously, starting with the First Congo War, rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who won the war, organized the Twa into paramilitary groups to help him.