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The Fault Line: The African Great Lakes Conflict and its International Context

... IIS MGIMO Working Paper #88 / 2025 The conflict in the Great Lakes region of North and South Kivu—eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—reignited in 2021, triggered by military clashes between the Congolese armed forces and the M23 rebel group. The recent escalation coincides with inter-ethnic violence spreading into neighboring countries. The following working paper by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Institute for International Studies of the Moscow ...

14.01.2026

Goma, the City on the Volcano

... conflict The escalation in eastern DRC began long before alarming headlines started appearing in the media. But how far back do we go? Options are open and include: 2022, when tensions steadily rose as M23 expanded its territorial control in eastern DRC; 2021, when M23 resurfaced after its military defeat in 2013; 2012, when M23 first emerged, reached its peak capturing Goma; The Second Congo War (1998–2003), or even further back to the colonial era, when the ethnic dynamics that now fuel the conflict first took ...

01.02.2025

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