Chirimwami made these remarks in a recent interview with Xinhua in Goma, the capital city of the province, where fighting has been ongoing between the DRC military and multiple armed groups for years, leading to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. According to Chirimwami, the rebel ...
Displaced people arrive by boat at the Nzulo port, near Goma, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on Jan. 23, 2025. Intensified fighting in eastern DRC has triggered significant new displacement of civilians and injured nine peacekeepers, a UN spokesman said on...
More than 4,000 prisoners escaped from Munzenze prison in Goma on the night of 27 January as M23 entered the city, which is the capital of North Kivu province. It later emerged that hundreds of female inmates had been attacked in their wing and raped and burned alive .More escapes C in...
with credible reports that the M23 is moving rapidly towards the city of Bukavu," said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, at a daily briefing. Bukavu is the capital of South Kivu province.
Humanitarian fears mount as airport is last obstacle before city of Bukavu and its population of about 1m people Rebels from the Rwandan-backed M23 group have seized the strategically important airport serving Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , ...
The country's access to the Atlantic Ocean is a narrow strip of land on the north bank of the Congo River. With an area of 2 345 million sq. km, the DRC is the third largest country in Africa. The capital city is Kinshasa with a population of approximately 6.5 million, while the ...
The movement of essential supplies and personnel is an urgent concern as hostilities complicate humanitarian efforts, Dujarric said. Non-essential UN personnel have been temporarily relocated from the south Kivu province capital city and the surrounding area. ...
“Everybody is really worried,” said Sara Rosenberg, who volunteered at the two-decade-old Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Centre (CRPL) in Lwiro village in DRC’s South Kivu province, where Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have recently captured the province’s capital city and the airport. ...
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- While calm is being restored in Goma, the key eastern city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the risk of disease outbreaks, including cholera and Mpox, increases on the outskirts, according to the United Nations officials. ...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The resumption of fighting in an eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) province has killed and wounded civilians and restricted aid operations, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said...