Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes that straddle a tectonic plate boundary called the East African Rift. In the rift, the Somalian tectonic plate is drifting eastward and away from the ...

The lake is situated on the Albertine Rift, a western branch of the East African ... While the idea of getting anywhere near something like Lake Kivu might be off-putting to some–myself included.

By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again drawn global attention to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...

KINSHASA, (March 7, 2025) – About 375,000 children are missing out on education and are vulnerable to violence and recruitment by armed groups in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of ...

They explore a range of issues, from precolonial times to the multiple crises of the 1990s. One project studied precolonial social transformations in the Kivu Rift Valley, the border area between ...

Marcus Bachmann, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the situation in this part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the conflict evolves.

Kenya's Greater Rift Valley, the Lake Kivu & Rusizi River Basin (Burundi, DRC, and Rwanda), and the Ghana Cocoa Belt. The initiative will provide critical support to partner community ...

Focusing on three key landscapes — Kenya’s Greater Rift Valley, the Ghana Cocoa Belt, and the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River Basin spanning Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Focusing on three key landscapes — Kenya’s Greater Rift Valley, the Ghana Cocoa Belt, and the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River Basin spanning Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo ...