Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that civilians in the South Kivu Highlands of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are increasingly trapped by fighting, with armed groups and government forces alike obstructing humanitarian aid and preventing people from fleeing violence.

Reparatory justice for colonialism, enslavement and the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans is essential to dismantling systemic racism, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has said.