On social media, especially the WhatsApp messaging app, photos and videos have been circulating showing a young teenage girl who was shot. Internet users claim that she had just died following gunfire from the Congolese national police, who were suppressing an escalation between their officers escorting a safe and dignified burial team of…
Sentenced in mid-2025 by the Congolese military justice system for treason and other charges, former Congolese President Joseph Kabila, who has been living in exile since 2023, travelled last May to the city of Goma, an area under the control of the AFC/M23 rebellion. Stating that his current struggle « is the fight against the tyranny taking root in the DRC », his stay was covered by FACTUALITÉ Afrique, which takes you to the heart of his consultations with various segments of Goma's population.
Exclusive Participatory Investigation | 2024-2025 FULA FULA DEAL, at the heart of the FARDC air force mafia in Kivu An exclusive participatory investigation by the FACTUALITÉ Afrique research and expertise centre in InfoCom. The « Filigrane » project, specialising in the authentication of documents and sources, led by the same centre, has…
Ituri: fluid mechanics of an ignored conflict By Fiston Mahamba Larousse to Marcel-Héritier Kapitene, actuary, economist and expert on conflict dynamics in the Great Lakes. What is your personal analysis of the current security situation in Ituri province, with armed attacks against civilians but also the resurgence of…
Floribert Ndjabu is a former warlord in Ituri. Convicted by the national justice system following his deportation from the Netherlands, where he had sought political asylum after appearing as a witness in the Mathieu Ngudjolo case at the International Criminal Court-ICC. He returned to Ituri to seek peace after serving his sentence in Kinshasa. Alongside Thomas Lubanga (the first ICC convict) on an official Congolese government mission raising awareness among armed groups to abandon the war, they were kidnapped in 2022 by the CODECO militia before escaping. In the last legislative elections, he was elected as a national MP, as was Thomas Lubanga, whose provincial legislative mandate was invalidated by the Congolese courts, which are authorised to certify the results of the electoral commission. Since then; Lubanga has secluded himself in Kampala, capital of Uganda, from where he launched a new rebellion: the Convention for the People's Revolution-CRP.
