Retreat at Lake Kivu information

The Retreat at Lake Kivu is an international forum hosted by Never Again International for discussing issues related to genocide at Lake Kivu, Rwanda...

The Kivu conflict is an umbrella term for a series of protracted armed conflicts in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic...

plains, to wetlands, and to lakes. Covering a surface area of 2,700 km2 (1,000 sq mi), Lake Kivu is Rwanda’s largest lake and the sixth largest in Africa...

Republic of the Congo (DRC), it operates mainly in the province of North Kivu, which borders both Uganda and Rwanda. The M23 rebellion of 2012 to 2013...

the Albertine Rift between Lakes Edward and Kivu. The Rutshuru River runs north through the territory, emptying into Lake Edward It is bounded on the...

located at Fizi-Baraka in South Kivu. This was the center of the remaining rebel-held territory which stretched for 240 kilometres (150 mi) along Lake Tanganyika...

created the African Great Lakes, four of which lie on the Congo's eastern frontier: Lake Albert, Lake Kivu, Lake Edward, and Lake Tanganyika. The rift valley...

Republic of the Congo (DRC). They reside in the South Kivu Province, situated south of Lake Kivu and to the north and northwest of Uvira Territory, along...

commands, based at Matadi, near the coast; the capital Kinshasa, further up the Congo river; Kalemie, on Lake Tanganyika; and Goma, on Lake Kivu. The International...

has come to be known as the Kivu conflict. In August 2007, the area under Nkunda's control lay north of Lake Kivu in Nord-Kivu in the territories of Masisi...

agrarian tribes of Congo and the Banyarwanda in the Eastern region of Congo of Kivu. When colonial boundaries were drawn in the late nineteenth century many...

executed 13 people who were previously abducted from the city of Oicha, North Kivu. In April 2013, it was reported that ADF started a recruitment campaign in...

way taking control of Lake Kivu. On 23 October 1914, the ship Hedwig von Wissmann sank the Belgian Alexandre Delcommune on Lake Tanganyika, near Mtoa...

though much of its focus subsequently turned to the Ituri conflict, the Kivu conflict and the Dongo conflict. The mission was known as the United Nations...

ethnic groups. Since the late 1990s, the ADF has operated in the DRC's North Kivu province near the border with Uganda. While repeated military offensives...

The M23 rebellion was an armed conflict in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), that occurred between the March 23 Movement and government...

continued since in the ongoing Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, and the Kivu and Ituri conflicts. Nine African countries and around twenty-five armed...

Kalemie to Bukavu through the town of Baraka to open up the Kivu region was proposed. Kalemie lies at the centre of water lines to Kigoma, Tanzania, Mpulungu...

Bølling–Allerød warming. Rivers and lakes such as Lake Chad formed or expanded, glaciers grew on Mount Kilimanjaro and the Sahara retreated. Two major dry fluctuations...

1998–2003 Kivu Conflict (Laurent Nkunda Rebellion) Kenya has enjoyed relatively stable governance. However, the politics of it has been turbulent at times...

they were nearly 1,500 km (930 miles) from the nearest allied forces in Kivu and surrounded on three sides. To the west lay Kitona, which was now under...

and northwestern Tanzania as far south as the Kabobo Plateau at the border of South Kivu and Katanga Provinces, Democratic Republic of Congo. C. asukului...

Rutshuru. The FARDC troops retreated south through Goma towards South Kivu and north through Kanyabayonga into Lubero Territory. At least five FARDC brigades...

rebels also alienated the Banyamulenge who lived in South Kivu during this time, as the retreating insurgents killed the Banyamulenge's cows for food. Even...