Since February 2025, CIR has run a monitoring project tracking conflict events, armed group movements and potential human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), primarily focusing on North and South Kivu. Eastern DRC remains a complex and unstable region that has seen repeated outbreaks of violence involving multiple armed groups, including M23, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and several Mai-Mai factions. The Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and other regional actors have also been drawn into the fighting, forming a dense and shifting network of alliances and front lines.
