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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.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have claimed control of eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped. It marks a sharp escalation in one of Africa’s longest wars, threatening to dramatically worsen a dire humanitarian crisis.
Shortly after its creation in 2012, the M23 rapidly gained territory and seized Goma – acts that were met with international opprobrium and accusations of war crimes and human rights violations.
M23 fighters entered Goma on Monday in the. Dead bodies lay in the streets, gunfire rang out and hospitals were overwhelmed in east Congo's largest city on Tuesday, as M23 rebels backed by Rwanda ...
Louise Sabina, 39, poses for a photo Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 in a Goma, eastern Congo school where she and her 10 children found shelter after her soldier husband was sent to Rumangabo for mixing ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped. It marks a sharp escalation in one of Africa’s longest wars, threatening to dramatically worsen a dire humanitarian crisis.
The rebels' advance into Goma has killed at least 2,000 people in and around the city, Congolese authorities have said. M23 issued a 72-hour ultimatum to displaced people to leave settlement camps and return to their villages, the U.N.’s humanitarian aid coordination agency, OCHA, said in its briefing on Tuesday.
The UN says at least 700 people have been killed in intense fighting in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, since Sunday. UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said 2,800 ...