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M23 rebels battling Congo's army close in on Goma as panic spreads among city's 2 million people
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in eastern ... Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writers Monika Pronczuk in Dakar, Senegal; Jean-Yves Kamale and Christina Malkia in ...
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Rwanda-backed rebels push into a mineral-rich town in Congo, ignoring ceasefire calls
Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo's army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ceasefire this week by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents as the M23 ...
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DRC's Goma, after the M23 attack: A city at a standstill, cut off from the world
Goma market (Democratic Republic of Congo), on March 4, 2025. REUTERS Under normal circumstances, Goma's Birere market is a hive of activity, with hundreds of stalls packed with produce from North ...
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Goma ‘fiasco’ — deal to bring SA and SADC troops home hits a snag
DRC foreign minister says M23 rebels and Rwandan troops will have to leave Goma before SADC troops withdraw. The promising agreement between SADC and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Friday to ...
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Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, UN says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP ... On Feb. 28, M23 fighters raided the CBCA Ndosho Hospital and Heal Africa Hospital in Goma, a strategic city they seized earlier this year, the U.N. Human Rights Office ...
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Eastern DRC: The impossible death toll of the battle for Goma
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 27-28 January, following a five-day offensive backed by the Rwandan army. After clashes between ...