Peace remains elusive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where fighting still rages. A cease-fire deal between the ...

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 ...

Several towns that fell to armed groups in eastern Congo’s North Kivu and South Kivu provinces have been recaptured by government forces, a Congolese army spokesman said, even as the rebels have ...

For months, the capital of Tanganyika, a province bordering South Kivu, feared the arrival of M23 rebels and their Rwandan ...

CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).On 27 June, the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent history, exposing deep systemic cracks in public health, water infrastructure, and humanitarian ...

June 18, 2025A cholera outbreak has infected more than 600 people at an artisanal gold mine in South Kivu province, overwhelming local health services and exposing severe sanitation challenges in the ...

U.S. funded treatments in the country have helped reduce deaths from HIV/AIDS to around 14,000 a year, from as high as ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels control several areas in eastern Congo, including Luhihi and the provincial capital of South Kivu, Bukavu. The decades-long conflict in the region escalated in January ...

At the time, the Kivu Province encompassed North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema, with Bukavu as its capital. Originally named Costermansville Province in 1933, it was renamed Kivu Province in 1947.

Funding cuts to international aid organizations mean that medical assistance has dried up for vulnerable people affected by conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.