Democratic Republic of the Congo — De Facto Map

Democratic Republic of the Congo — Sovereign state · Central Africa · War in the east.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo: more than 100 million people and the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, governed from Kinshasa by Félix Tshisekedi. The government holds almost all of it, but not the east. The Rwanda-backed M23 has held Goma and Bukavu since early 2025 and runs its own administration across much of North and South Kivu; its ally Twirwaneho holds the South Kivu highlands. In Ituri, the militias CODECO and Zaire / CRP carry local authority beside the state, the Islamic State–linked ADF raids villages from the forest, and Uganda's army fights the ADF with Kinshasa's consent. The Washington Accords with Rwanda (December 2025) and the Doha talks with M23 have produced a ceasefire on paper, not on the ground.