The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major Congo city declare …
2 days ago · GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo’s key city of Goma announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region Monday for humanitarian reasons, following calls for a safe corridor for aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced people. The M23 rebels said the ceasefire would start Tuesday. The announcement came shortly after the U.N. health agency said at least 900 ...
Congo Mourns Its Dead After Rebels Capture Key City of Goma
11 hours ago · Though most fighting has stopped in Goma in recent days, the city’s capture by M23 rebels has raised fears of a broader war between Congo, Rwanda and their respective allies. Image
Thousands flee fighting in Congo as rebels claim they’ve ... - CNN
Jan 26, 2025 · 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.
Thousands flee fighting in Congo as rebels claim they've captured …
Jan 28, 2025 · GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have claimed they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped.. Analysts said the M23 fighters aimed to control the city of about 2 million people and perhaps other areas in the region …
Rwanda-backed rebels have seized another town in eastern Congo
18 hours ago · GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week, taking control of a town 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Bukavu, civil society officials and residents told The Associated Press.. Goma remains “under occupation” by Congo’s M23 rebels and the ceasefire they ...
M23 Rebels Claim Takeover of Goma, Congo’s Largest City
Jan 27, 2025 · GOMA, Congo — 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 ...
Life in Goma After a Rebel Takeover - The New York Times
4 days ago · For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much uncertainty. Rwanda-backed rebels took control of Goma, a city on Lake Kivu ...
Bodies on streets, hospitals struggle, battles intensify in DR Congo’s Goma
Jan 28, 2025 · In 2012, M23 first seized Goma, but the Congolese army, supported by the UN forces, pushed the rebels back into the eastern hills on the border with Rwanda in 2013.
The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a city in Congo declare a ...
1 day ago · The M23 rebels are backed by some 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, far more than in 2012 when they first briefly captured Goma then withdrew after international ...
Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo's Goma in major escalation
Jan 27, 2025 · GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo's largest city Goma on Monday, and the U.N. said they were supported by at least some ...