No major upheaval was witnessed in the Great Lakes region in 2004, apart from the ongoing tensions in the Kivus and inter-ethnic clashes in Ituri in the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
28. 2004年，大湖区没有出现重大的动乱，只有南北基伍持续不断的紧张局势，及刚果民主共和国东北部伊图里的部族间冲突。