M23 rebels battling Congo's army close in on Goma

Rebels Backed by Rwanda Close In on Major City in Congo
Rebels in Congo have surrounded the eastern city of Goma, in one of the sharpest escalations in years of a conflict that has pitted the Central African country against its neighbor Rwanda.
M23 rebels seize eastern town in Congo
Tutsi-led M23 rebel group claims to defend Tutsi interests against ethnic Hutu militias whose leaders are linked to genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda - Anadolu Ajansı
M23 rebels battling Congo's army close in on Goma as panic spreads among city's 2 million people
Panic spread in eastern Congo's main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were heard going off in the city's distant outskirts and hundreds of wounded civilians were brought in to the main hospital from the area of the fighting.
Thousands Uprooted as Congo M23 Rebels Near Goma in Major Advance
Civilians carry their belongings as they flee from the Nzulo camp for the internally displaced to Goma, as fighting intensifies between the M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC),
Fear abounds as M23 fighters close in on DR Congo's Goma
Luggage on their backs, they trudged all Wednesday morning along the road leading to downtown Goma, fleeing the advancing fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.Streams of displaced people have flocked from Minova,
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The military governor of North Kivu Province in eastern DR Congo was killed in the battlefield on Thursday, January 23, according to M23 rebels. Maj Gen Peter Chirimwami, who was based in provincial capital of Goma,
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Thousands displaced as rebels advance toward eastern Goma in Congo
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Eastern Congo is as wretched as ever
Sharing the same ethnicity as Mr Kagame, they hark back to their families’ flight from the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda ... America’s State Department. Congo’s regular army, which is riddled ...
Rwanda’s Paul Kagame urges Congo to negotiate with M23 rebels after they seize strategic towns
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Kagame, Erdogan Discuss DR Congo Security Situation
President Paul Kagame and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, discussed the security situation in the eastern part of DR Congo on Thursday, January 23, during the Rwandan leader's official ...
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Explainer: What's happening in eastern Congo and why aid groups are warning of new humanitarian crisis
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Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seize key town in DR Congo
Rwanda has previously said the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo were working with some of those responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide against ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu. The ...