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'All we can hear are gunshots': Thousands flee as DR Congo rebels claim Goma city
Rwandan-backed rebels have taken over much of the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, although some gunfire can still be heard. There are reports of Congolese and Rwandan troops firing at each other across the border. Columns of M23 rebels have entered the city.
DR Congo accuses Rwanda of ‘declaration of war’ after rebels enter key city
In an op-ed in the Financial Times on Sunday, Jason Stearns, author of The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo, accused the west of soft-peddling on Rwanda, which he called “the main instigator of the M23 conflict”.
M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.
North Kivu is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital city is Goma.
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DR Congo: hundreds of thousands displaced as conflict rages in the eastRwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, as the United Nations described a mass panic ...
The violence in eastern Congo has escalated. Near Goma in North Kivu, 13 peacekeepers were killed by M23 rebels, while Congo has broken off relations with Rwanda. The North Kivu region is rich in gold ...
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