Continued clashes in DRC's South Kivu trigger mass displacement

8/2/2025 7:20

With hostilities subsiding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s occupied Goma City in North Kivu province, UN humanitarians said on Friday violence in South Kivu province is increasing and triggering mass displacement of people.



The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a bombing in South Kivu injured three civilians and damaged power infrastructure in the town of Nyabibwe, about 60 km north of the provincial capital of Bukavu.



Continued clashes in South Kivu are triggering mass displacement of people and causing civilian casualties. Thousands of people are on the move, with many fleeing active combat zones towards Bukavu, which is under threat of an M23 rebel attack.



The UN humanitarians said they and their partners are assessing conditions in and around Goma, where hundreds of thousands of people are still on the move.