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The 2025 Goma offensive was a military operation launched by the March 23 Movement (M23), a Congolese rebel group that is part of the Congo River Alliance (AFC) and is supported by Rwanda, against the regional capital of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It lasted from January 23 to January 30, 2025.
The land forces are made up of about 14 integrated brigades, of fighters from all the former warring factions which have gone through an brassage integration process (see next paragraph), and a not-publicly known number of non-integrated brigades which remain solely made up from single factions (the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD)'s Armee National Congolaise, the ex-government former ...
1 CODECO Ituri Province, Tchibi Tchibi, K25 Mongali and Kabakaba – CODECO killed three gold miners working at a quarry called "America" in the town of Kabakaba and one woman working in the field in the town of Tchibi Tchibi. [43] 25 February 1 (+2) Unknown Mai-Mai Makeke, North Kivu – Mai-Mai attacked FARDC positions in the village of Makeke.
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Forces armées de la république démocratique du Congo, FARDC) is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FARDC was rebuilt patchily as part of the peace process which followed the end of the Second Congo War, in July 2003. The ...
On 25 January 2025, the group called on "all members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) present in Goma and its surroundings to lay down their weapons within 48 hours". One of its members, M23, recently captured Sake , a strategic town 27 kilometres from Goma, suggesting that the group might move imminently to ...
[1] SIG SG 540 [1] Switzerland: Assault rifle 5.56×45mm NATO CETME Model 58 [1] Spain: Battle rifle: 7.62×51mm NATO: FN FAL Belgium: Battle rifle 7.62×51mm NATO The Heavy Barrel machine gun variant is also used. [1] IMI Galil [1] Israel: Battle rifle 7.62×51mm NATO Machine guns Bren L4 [1] United Kingdom: Light machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO ...
[9] [10] By the end of January 24, FARDC and allied militias were able to push M23 to the outskirts of the city, where clashes intensified around villages like Rushembeshe. [4] [10] Many residents of Kitshanga fled the initial fighting towards refugee camps. [6] FARDC accused the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) of aiding M23 in the fighting in ...
The Western DR Congo clashes are a series of attacks by Mobondo militia on armed forces and Teke civilians which started in June 2022. The conflict has an ethnic component, as the Mobondo is mainly recruited from Yaka and other ethnic groups that are migrating into territories traditionally inhabited by Teke. [1]