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Dec
31
2023
By SONIA ROLLEY
Over 1,000 Burundian soldiers covertly deploy in eastern Congo, internal UN report says

Over 1,000 Burundian soldiers covertly deploy in eastern Congo, internal UN report says

NEWS
OVER 1,000 Burundian troops have been covertly deployed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since October, wearing the uniform of Congolese troops and working alongside them in the fight against M23 rebels, an unpublished U.N. report seen by Reuters showed. Citing security and intelligence sources and sources close to Congolese army command, the report by the U.N. Group of Experts in Congo said the troops were airlifted from Burundi to eastern Congo by Congolese army planes starting from Sept. 21. The Burundian and Congolese governments and the Congolese army did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Reuters.…
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Dec
28
2023
By The African Mirror
At least 40 more people die in floods and landslides in DR Congo

At least 40 more people die in floods and landslides in DR Congo

NEWS
AT least 40 more people have died in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said, after heavy downpours overnight that unleashed floods and landslides that left residents digging through the mud to find bodies. In the city of Bukavu, onlookers gathered to watch on Wednesday as a group of men hauled a car out of the mud to recover a woman's body from underneath, a Reuters witness said. At least 20 people died in Bukavu and at least 20 more were killed in the village of Burinyi, 50 km (31 miles) from Bukavu, according to officials in the two…
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Nov
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Islamist militants tie up, kill Congo villagers

Islamist militants tie up, kill Congo villagers

NEWS
ISLAMIST militants tied up at least 19 villagers and killed them with machetes and other weapons in a raid in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a civil society leader said. Other villagers fled but may have drowned as they tried to cross the Lamia River into Uganda, Maurice Mabele Musaidi told Reuters. "There are still people missing," he said. Musaidi and a spokesperson for Congo's army said the attack in Beni territory's Watalinga chiefdom was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. The ADF…
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May
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives

Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives

NEWS
THE death toll from flooding in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and as wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South Kivu province, ripped through the riverside villages of Nyamukubi and Bushushu five days ago, razing houses, destroying crops and killing more than 400 people, the deadliest natural disaster in Congo's recent history. They have highlighted the vulnerability of people to climate change in many parts of Africa where poor urban planning and weak infrastructure…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Congo flood victims buried en masse as death toll rises above 400

Congo flood victims buried en masse as death toll rises above 400

NEWS
ANGE KASONGO and SONIA ROLLEY DEAD bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country's deadliest disasters in recent history. Survivors looked on as humanitarian workers piled corpses into freshly dug mass graves over the weekend, in videos posted online. The workers have spent days recovering mud-caked bodies from the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in South Kivu province, where days of torrential rain triggered landslides and caused rivers to break their banks on Thursday. "We left…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
DRC: Flood victims buried, death toll rises above 400

DRC: Flood victims buried, death toll rises above 400

NEWS
ANGE KASONGO and SONIA ROLLEY DEAD bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country's deadliest disasters in recent history. Survivors looked on as humanitarian workers piled corpses into freshly dug mass graves over the weekend, in videos posted online. The workers have spent days recovering mud-caked bodies from the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in South Kivu province, where days of torrential rain triggered landslides and caused rivers to break their banks on Thursday. "We left…
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Apr
13
2023
By DJAFFAR AL KATANTY
Eastern DRC Conflict: Thousands of schools forced to close

Eastern DRC Conflict: Thousands of schools forced to close

NEWS
THOMAS Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people's camp in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again. Buregeya fled the town of Kibumba with his family in October amid a renewed offensive by the M23 rebel group - the third time in 15 years he has been forced to escape his home and has not been able to study for a whole year. He is now 22 and still waiting to complete school. "When…
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Apr
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Attack kills around 20 in eastern Congo; Islamic State claims responsibility

Attack kills around 20 in eastern Congo; Islamic State claims responsibility

NEWS
ISLAMIC State has claimed responsibility in a statement on its Telegram channel for an attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that authorities said killed around 20 people. The attack, which took place on Friday in Musandaba, a village on the outskirts of Beni, is part of a wave of violence against civilians that the army and local authorities blame on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. "We counted about 20 dead on Friday in the village of Musandaba," said the military administrator…
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Oct
25
2022
By The African Mirror
Congo fighting flares as hundreds shelter in convent – army, MSF

Congo fighting flares as hundreds shelter in convent – army, MSF

NEWS
FIGHTERS from the M23 rebel group clashed with the army in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on the fourth day of violence in which four civilians have been killed, the army said. About 500 people, some of them injured, sought shelter in a convent in Ntamugenga village near the borders of Uganda and Rwanda and need to be evacuated, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres tweeted. The unrest in North Kivu province has broken months of relative calm in eastern Congo following clashes between the army and M23 militants at the end of March. The group declared a ceasefire in April, and the…
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Apr
05
2022
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill 21 civilians in eastern Congo

Suspected Islamists kill 21 civilians in eastern Congo

NEWS
SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed at least 21 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local human rights group and a witness said. Fighters believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked the village of Masambo on Sunday night, said Ricardo Rupande, president of the group, the Ruenzori Sector Civil Society. The village is about 40 km (25 miles) east of the city of Beni in the Ruenzori district. The ADF is a Ugandan militia that has been active in eastern Congo since the 1990s. It has been blamed for thousands…
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