Turning our eyes to the war victims in Maluku-Kinshasa

Thousands of Mobondo Militia war victims from Kwamouth Territory in Kongo-Central Province are living in dire conditions in Maluku, which is one among the rural Divisions of Kinshasa. They have been there over one year now and yet despite being near the Capital City, no one has ever come to their aid.

COJESKI-DRC together with its member organization RIJDD and a partner organization AFI Sante pulled resources together and went to help some among those in difficult situation in Makulu. We also thank the contributions from local communities and people of good will who really made our work possible.

We shall continue raising up our voices on behalf of these people who are totally abandoned, we are still the very first organizations to come and help them.

40 IDPS and Refugee women and girls now involved in agriculture in Kalemie City, Tanganyika Province -DRCongo

As part of our Climate Change Resilience for the most affected and vulnerable communities, we received a grant from COHERE to support IDPs and Refugees in order to survive and resist the consequences of Climate Change, this is also part of our approach to promote local solutions through livelihood activities to refugees and IDPs in DRC.

The project started early this month, and the very first difficult work was done men in order to prepare the land while women will do the rest. This will help them to produce their own food and generate some money from the produce they will sell to the local markets.

Our next steps

To provide for them the effective means of transport during the period of harvest,

To organize them in Agriculture Cooperatives,

To build for them a store in the city where they will sell their produce from,

Capitalizing each meeting in order to present the situation of refugees in Kinshasa-DRC

Refugees feel marginalized, abandoned, discriminated and abused in various ways by some people in the host communities in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This forced many refugees to live in hide; the strategy is simple " You must hide your identity so that no one may notice that you are a refugee". This is what we want to address.

We have now started by Actors of the Civil Society, this picture was taken on Thursday April 8th, 2026 during the meeting with Human Rights Defenders Monitoring Team where we went and convinced them to include refugees in their activities. We now need to work closely with them some issues about refugees may appear publicly through the United Nations Human Rights Offices in Kinshasa.

On Thursday April 2nd, 2026 we spent most of our time in various meetings engaging people on issues of refugees in DRC in general and in Kinshasa in particular. At the same time we need to offer relief aid to refugees, help them to be organized and fully informed about their rights, offer them opportunities to rise up their voices, and make them more visible and highlight their problems, but also create awareness among the host communities, the Civil Society, Government institutions and Development partners.

That is why we engaged the audience on issues of refugees during the Conference on the Washington Peace Agreement between DRC and Rwanda which focuses more on refugees also, but also presented on refugee issues during the United Nations Human Rights Office general meeting here in Kinshasa.

We really rely on your generosity in order to keep pushing and remember refugees are among the causes of war in DRC, if we solve refugee issues, we shall make a great step forward.

Near the Capital City Kinshasa, war victims from Kongo-Central Province are camped in Maluku Division, but again as it has been observed despite the fact that they have been there over a year, no relief aid has been extended to them. Recently we visited them and we are the very first organization to visit them even if we did not bring anything but they were so happy to see us.

They have survived on the solidarity of the host communities, but the consequences are extremely high. Yet all people know about the war in Kwamouth Territory and everybody knows that people ran away but humanitarian actors remain invisible in Maluku.