A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a ...

Press Release - When MONUSCO's helicopter landed in Goma, emotions ran high. For Bintou Keita, Head of the United Nations Mission in the DRC, this return to a city deeply affected by conflict carried ...

The ICRC’s teams carried out a study in April and May 2025 of 109 health centres in North and South Kivu, where the ICRC operates. The results – whether on the overall risk of disease or the health of ...

Supported by MONUSCO, the initiative brought attention to the hardships faced by children in conflict-affected North Kivu and reaffirmed the commitment of stakeholders to their protection.

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province, followed by Bukavu in ...

Zawadi Sifa who has been fleeing fighting from camp to camp, shares food with her seven children in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2025.

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief is urging more global support for displaced people in eastern Congo. On Thursday, he visited refugee camps in North and South Kivu provinces. He described ...

Rape as a weapon of war in DR Congo Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an emergency medical organization, reports that sexual violence cases have exploded, especially in North Kivu, since fighting ...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an emergency medical organization, says sexual violence cases have exploded, especially in North Kivu, since fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 began.

In a rapid advance, the M23 captured a number of key cities and towns. The group's first major coup was at the end of January with the taking of Goma – a city in North Kivu province that is home ...