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Goma capture sparks fears of deeper regional conflict as Rwanda-backed rebels push south
Kenyan President William Ruto, the East African Community (EAC) chair, convened a virtual summit on 29 January to discuss the ...
Rwanda-backed rebels bed down in Congo's Goma and push south for further gains
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to ...
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In rebel-held Goma, residents struggle with water, electricity cuts
Even before Goma fell to Rwanda-backed rebels, the city was already knee-deep in a water crisis caused in part by dilapidated ...
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IOM Raises Alarm Over Displacement of Hundreds of Thousands in Goma, DRC
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), is deeply concerned about the hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced over the last few days in Goma, North Kivu Province, eastern Democratic ...
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Congo-Rwanda border shut as M23 rebels claim Goma capture
Heavy artillery fire could be heard in Goma on Monday, hours after Rwandan troops and fighters from the M23 rebel group entered the capital of North Kivu Province. The UN has warned of a looming ...
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Rebels Backed by Rwanda Announce Capture of Key City in Eastern Congo
Camps on the outskirts of Goma that had hosted more than 300,000 people completely emptied out in a few hours, the U.N. said. On Friday, the military governor of North Kivu, the province of which ...
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Congo-Kinshasa: M23 Rebels Capture Goma, Call for Calm
The AFC/M23 rebels early Monday, January 27, announced that they captured Goma, the capital of eastern DR Congo's North Kivu Province. The rebels announced the city's capture in a statement ...
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What to know about the escalating conflict in eastern Congo as rebels close in on Goma
Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the city of Goma, the government’s last stronghold in the North Kivu ...
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Thousands flee fighting in Congo as rebels claim they’ve captured the key city of Goma
Goma is a key location in the conflict-battered North Kivu province whose minerals are critical to much of the world’s technology. Rebel groups have long fought over control of eastern Congo’s ...
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Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
Goma is home to around two million people and is the largest city in North Kivu. M23’s incursion on Monday was the second time the group had moved to capture the provincial capital after it ...
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United Nations (UN) temporarily relocates non-critical staff from Goma (North-Kivu) without interrupting its operations
The United Nations is temporarily relocating nonessential staff from Goma such as administrative staff and others that can continue performing their duties from elsewhere in response to the ...
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The Fall of Goma
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Once again, the eastern Congolese city of Goma has fallen to the Rwanda-backed ...