NAIROBI, February 24. /TASS/. Around 7,000 people have been killed in the fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since early January, Prime Minister of the DR Congo Judith Suminwa said.
According to Suminwa, ninety refugee camps have been destroyed, leaving some 450,000 people without housing.
She called on countries around the world to take action and impose the toughest possible sanctions amid the atrocities committed by rebels. "It is impossible to describe the cries and moans of the victims of this conflict," she said at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Rebels from the March 23 Movement (M23) plunged into hostilities in the east of the DRC in January 2021 and have since seized dozens of cities and villages in the North Kivu province. They took control of North Kivu’s capital city of Goma in January 2025 and of Bukavu, the capital of neighboring South Kivu province in February.