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With the fall of Goma nearly all of North Kivu is under M23 control. [30] As M23 captured most of the city, the rebel group's forces in the South Kivu province along the western shore of Lake Kivu began an offensive in the direction of the provincial capital Bukavu, about 125 miles (201 km) away from Goma, [78] on January 29. A senior Rwandan ...
Kivu is also the name for the entire region surrounding Lake Kivu, including the portions in Rwanda which contain the vast majority of the lake area's population (the contiguous towns of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda, with a combined population approaching 1,000,000, form the largest urbanised area in the Lake Kivu area). [3]
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -President Paul Kagame said Rwanda was ready for "confrontation" as he rejected criticism over his backing for M23 rebels who were pushing south on ...
The Congolese Army and MONUC were planning operations in South Kivu to eliminate the FDLR. [97] On 18 August, three Indian UN soldiers were killed by Mai-Mai rebels in a surprise attack at a MONUSCO base in Kirumba, Nord-Kivu. [98] On 23 October, Mai-Mai rebels attacked a MONUSCO base in Rwindi (30 km or 19 mi north of Kirumba).
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Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. [2] It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. [3] Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika. [4]
Kivu District was created by an arrêté royal of 28 March 1912, which divided the Congo into 22 districts. [1] A 1912 map shows that the former Stanleyville District had been broken into a much smaller Stanleyville Districts and the new districts of Lowa, Ituri, Kivu and Maniema. [2] Kivu District became part of the Orientale Province created ...