Police officers pay tribute to the coffins of activists, who died during demonstrations in Goma from July 25 to 27 demanding the departure of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), before the burial in Goma on August 5, 2022. Ten people who died in protests against the UN Mission that recently rocked towns in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were laid to rest in Goma on August 5, 2022 after a popular tribute ceremony.

At the end of July, angry demonstrators ransacked and looted facilities of the United Nations Mission for the Stabilization of the DRC (Monusco), present in the country since 1999.

A total of 32 demonstrators and four peacekeepers were killed in a week of demonstrations in at least four eastern towns.

Guerchom Ndebo