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Demographer J.P. Sanderson estimates the population in 1885 at around 10–15 million people, [82] and in 2020 proposed three possible scenarios of population decline under Leopold II, suggesting that the most likely scenario is a population decline of 1.5 million people, from 11.5 million people to around 10–10.3 million people during the ...
Three people were killed when Mayi-Mayi fighters attack the village of Musangwa. [107] 14 July Batumbi, Ituri 1 1 An anti-personal mine laid by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Force killed a man and injured another. [108] 15 July Tinda Bridge, Ituri 4 2 Four people were killed and two injured near Tinda Bridge when an unknown group opened fire ...
The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central Africa") [a] are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They are divided into three ...
More than 400,000 people have been displaced since the start of the year due to ongoing clashes between M23 rebels and Congolese security forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...
DR Congo's government, as well as the US and France, have also identified Rwanda as backing the group. Last year, a UN experts report said that up to 4,000 Rwandan troops were fighting alongside ...
Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after the provincial capital was captured by rebels ...
The ADF are a Ugandan Islamist group who began an insurgency in 1996. It spread to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and intensified during the 2010s. Their attacks in North Kivu include a massacre in Beni in 2016. [1] During the late 2010s, the group began to affiliate with the Islamic State. [2]
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.