In January, 22 people died on Lake Maî-Ndombe and in April 2023, six were killed and 64 went missing on Lake Kivu. Witnesses of the Thursday tragedy said the boat was visibly overcrowded.

Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is bustling again with cargo and passenger boats. The lake was quiet for almost a month after rebels captured the port cities of Goma and Bukavu.

Traders and travellers packed their belongings and paid their fares early on Tuesday for the long boat journey across eastern DR Congo's Lake Kivu, the first sailing between the lake's two main ...

On the day of the disaster, farmers living near the blue-watered lake heard rumbling, and then saw a frothy spray shoot ...

The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city, the military command and provincial authorities fled by boat on Lake Kivu towards Bukavu without letting their soldiers know ...

In North Kivu, a second day of clashes raged near the banks of Lake Edward, which straddles the border between Congo and ...