Governor of Congo's North Kivu province dies of his wounds in fighting with rebels, authorities say
The governor of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, a ...
Lunar New Year 2025: What the Year of the Snake means and how it is celebrated in Asia and across the world
Lunar New Year 2025 brings in the Year of the Snake, a time for people around the world to come together in celebration. From ...
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Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo's Goma in major escalation
Ethnic Tutsi-led M23 rebels enter city of Goma Fighting continues amid conflicting claims about M23 advance Congo and UN accuse Rwanda of sending troops into Goma Conflict stems from Rwanda ...
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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 ...
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Goma hospitals overwhelmed with wounded, dead bodies in the streets, UN agencies say
GENEVA - Hospitals are overwhelmed in east Congo's city of Goma, treating hundreds of patients with gunshot, mortar and shrapnel wounds while many dead bodies lay in the streets, U.N. and other ...
The New York Times4d
Rebels Backed by Rwanda Announce Capture of Key City in Eastern Congo
The M23 militia, funded and directed by Rwanda, said it had seized the city of Goma, terrifying its people, many of whom sought shelter there after fleeing the rebel advance. By Caleb Kabanda and ...
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Congo-Rwanda border shut as M23 rebels claim Goma capture
Food prices have also skyrocketed. Passy Mubalama, a human rights activist in Goma, said she recently paid 1,000 Congolese francs (about €0.35, $0.36) for a bundle of sombe, a local leafy vegetable.
CNN5d
Thousands flee fighting in Congo as rebels claim they’ve captured the key city of Goma
Thousands fled the city of Goma on Monday as fighting raged between Congolese forces and rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda, who claimed to have captured eastern Congo’s largest regional hub ...
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Congo's Rwanda-backed rebels say they have taken control of key eastern city of Goma
Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s ...
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Fighting ongoing across DRC's Goma, Rwanda troops in city, says UN
it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday after Rwandan-backed M23 rebels claimed to have control of Goma. "Active zones of combat have spread to all ...
East Bay Times4d
Rebels enter outskirts of Goma and close the airport in the eastern Congo hub
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the outskirts of Goma on Sunday and the airport in the key eastern city was no longer in use, the top U.N. official in the ...