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HIGHLIGHTS
• The security situation across eastern DRC remains highly volatile. Human rights violations, including reprisal killings and abductions, continue to be reported.
• UNHCR and its partners continue to carry out key activities under its protection mandate across North and South Kivu, including protection monitoring, awareness-raising, referral and case management, and participation in joint assessments.
• UNHCR’s protection monitoring in Uvira Territory observed a gradual return of internally displaced persons to their areas of origin, following a relative calm. However, armed groups remain active in these areas, making it unsafe for returnees.
• On 4 April, the European Commission pledged €40 million in humanitarian assistance for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
• Ongoing violence in North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to kill, injure and displace civilians, OCHA has warned.
• Efforts to ease tensions in eastern DRC are ongoing, with dialogue between involved parties scheduled to take place on 9 April in Doha. This follows two rounds of discussions facilitated in Qatar last month between the governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
• According to WFP, conflict and rising food prices are pushing acute hunger to the highest level ever recorded in the DRC, with nearly a quarter of the DRC's total population facing acute food insecurity.
• Over 113,000 people have fled from DRC to neighbouring countries since the beginning of the year. While the number of new arrivals being recorded in Burundi over the past seven days has decreased, Uganda continues to record a daily average of over 550 individuals for the past week.