Mass displacement, food insecurity and disease outbreaks in the context of recurrent violence between an array of armed groups are among the many humanitarian challenges facing the DRC.
Insecurity Insight monitors sentiment towards the aid sector on social media and documents conflict events affecting aid operations, education, food and water systems, health care and protection, as well as conflict-related or political-related sexual violence and explosive weapons use in the DRC.
Our data can be downloaded on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) and corresponding reports can be accessed below.
Insecurity Insight monitors and examines social media as part of its Social Media Monitoring (SMM) project to identify sentiments that affect the aid sector. Insecurity Insight uses social media to better understand community perceptions.
Social media is increasingly used to question the value of aid. Social media is also frequently used to spread doubt about the intentions of health responders as occurred during the Ebola outbreaks where such narratives were used to incite violence against responders. Critical narratives are also widespread in the context of the mpox health emergency, where misinformation, conspiracy theories, and accusations of corruption have fueled skepticism toward vaccines.
In a collaboration with Rootwise and the Congo Humanitarian Analysis Team at Mercy Corps, Insecurity Insight combined social media and radio data to provide rapid, corroborated insight derived from local concerns and expressions of need.
February-March 2025
Protecting the humanitarian space during a public health emergency
August 2024
June 2024
March 2024
Spotlight sur M23
février - mars 2025
Surveillance des réseaux sociaux
Insecurity Insight monitors conflict events contributing to food insecurity in the DRC as part of its conflict and hunger project. Our in-depth report examines food-related violence in Ituri and North Kivu provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1 July 2023 and 31 July 2024. The report highlights how systemic violence against farmers, pastoralists, fishers and merchants in eastern DRC has driven millions of people into a state of chronic food insecurity. The persistent use of roadblocks and the looting of food by armed groups suggest that violence targeting food security is a deliberate tactic combining economic and strategic motives. Data covering the same period is accessible for download here.
Additionally, Insecurity Insight has published a shorter more recent briefing documenting food-related violence in North Kivu and Ituri provinces between August 2024 and January 2025 which is accessible here.
Food security and conflict-related sexual violence
Food-related livelihood activities such as tending fields, foraging for food or fetching water can also make women and girls vulnerable to conflict-related sexual violence attacks in conflicts where conflict parties use such violence. This report examines 81 examples of sexual violence committed by conflict parties across Africa, including the DRC, the Middle East and Asia between January 2020 and January 2023 to better understand the complex links between conflict-related sexual violence and food insecurity.
May 2025
mai 2025
February 2025
Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in the DRC, and based on its data, the DRC chapter (in English and French) of the 2024 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Epidemic of Violence identified 84 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2024. In these incidents, eight health workers were killed, nine were kidnapped and medical supplies were looted. The actual number of incidents and the severity of the problem are likely much greater.
– Protracted conflict, mpox outbreaks and over-crowded displacements sites strained the DRC’s already-fragile health care system.
– Attacks on health care doubled in Tanganyika province, where vaccination campaigns were disrupted by threats and violence.
– In some areas, health centers operated at up to 4,000% beyond their capacity, placing immense pressure on medical staff, who also had to cope with limited supplies and dangerous conditions.
Download the report data.
Published every two weeks, Insecurity Insight’s Attacks on Health Care New Brief tracks global threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care. Explore our interactive map to see where incidents happened.
Fiche d'information SHCC 2024 (FR)
2024 SHCC Factsheet (EN)
May 2024
2023 SHCC Factsheet
April 2024
Mai 2024
Fiche d'information SHCC 2023
April 2024
Mai 2023
Fiche d'information 2022
May 2023
SHCC 2022 Factsheet
septembre 2022
Fiche d'information 2021
May 2022
2021 SHCC Factsheet
24 May 2021
2020 SHCC Factsheet
November 2020
Attacks on Ebola Response
Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in the DRC is widespread, particularly in rural communities. Perpetrators of sexual violence include unidentified armed groups, various Mai-Mai militia groups, soldiers of the DRC and South Sudanese armed forces.
Our latest report examines 81 examples of sexual violence committed by conflict parties across Africa, including the DRC, the Middle East and Asia between January 2020 and January 2023 to better understand the complex links between conflict-related sexual violence and food insecurity. The report highlights how food-related livelihood activities such as tending fields, foraging for food or fetching water make women and girls vulnerable to conflict-related sexual violence attacks in conflicts where conflict parties use such violence.
Following the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Eastern part of DRC in August 2018, reports of widespread sexual exploitation, harassment and abuse emerged. Insecurity Insight’s analysis report highlights some of the key learnings on reporting sexual violence, exploitation and abuse from the DRC’s 10th Ebola response. We also work with local organisations in the DRC to strengthen reporting and monitoring of incidents of sexual violence.
Attacks on schools, teachers and students pose a significant threat to education in the DRC. Reflecting the gravity of the problem, it was reported in May 2023 that over 150 schools in North Kivu province in the east of the DRC had been attacked by armed groups since January with some of these schools rendered inoperable.
Insecurity Insight documents such incidents. Our data is available for download here.
