[4][5][6] For over 27 years, Bwegera has been devastated and experienced pernicious violence, notably during the First and Second Congo Wars of 1996–2003, where thousands of Hutu refugees and Zairian civilians were killed, and over a million people displaced, rendering them excruciating suffering in October 1996 when AFDL (Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre) invaded Zaire from Rwanda.
[7][12] Since the Second Congo War, insecurity in Bwegera has been fueled by an intricate web of geopolitics, ethnic and national rivalries, and the battle for control of the natural resources that abound in the east of the country.
[13][9][14][15] In 2008, two FARDC (Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo) soldiers of the 8th Integrated Brigade were killed around midday in Bwegera in the Ruzizi Plain of Uvira Territory in South Kivu.
[16] In August 2009, a vehicle carrying traders and FARDC troopers of the 8th Integrated Brigade was attacked on the route between Rubanga and Kiringye-Nyamutiri by the FDLR (Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda) insurgent group.
[19] On July 2, 2013, unidentified persons set fire to more than forty hectares of forest in the Bwegera and Luvungi, resulting in the disappearance of several species, including buffaloes, monkeys, and antelopes, due to scorched earth becoming infertile.
Donat Bakuka Ngolikwenda, a commander of the national police detachment of the mobile intervention group, was dispatched with his troops to Bwegera to strengthen the security of the displaced persons who came in April 2021 from the high and middle plateaus of Uvira.