27 January – Fighting between
FARDC and aligned
Wazalendo groups against Rwandan-backed
M23 fighters continue in Mweso and Karuba,
North Kivu.[3]
28 January – Forty people are presumed dead after a boat capsizes in
Lake Kivu.[4]
9 February – At least 18 people are killed during a collision between a bus and a truck on a road in
Kinshasa.[5]
19 February –
Rwanda rejects the
United States’ calls to withdraw troops and missile systems from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, citing threats from an alleged Congolese military build-up near the border.[6]
13 April – A landslide in
Idiofa,
Kwilu Province leaves at least 15 people dead and 60 others missing.[7]