DR Congo: Goma city close to falling to Rwanda-backed M23 militiamen, France says
Chaos in Congo's Goma: Embassies of Rwanda, France & US attacked; UN says dead bodies lie in streets
Pope Francis calls for peace as M23 rebels take Goma
France's foreign minister on Monday said an offensive by Rwanda-backed armed group M23 on the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma "must stop".
The Citizen on MSN5h
M23 rebels take control of Goma airportGoma residents and UN sources said dozens of troops had surrendered, but some soldiers and pro-government militiamen were holding out
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The United States, France and Britain pressured Rwanda on Sunday over its support for rebels rapidly closing in on eastern Congo's largest city, as government forces struggled to halt an offensive that has forced thousands of civilians to flee.
In just a few days, rebel fighters and Rwandan soldiers succeeded in taking the major city in eastern Congo. This lightning offensive was prepared in Kigali.
Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday after Rwandan-backed M23 rebels claimed to have control of Goma.
Gunfire rang out early on Monday across parts of Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, hours after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels said they had taken control of the city despite the United Nations Security Council's calling for an end to the offensive.
While M23 rebels closed in on Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the US, UK and France on Friday called on their nationals to leave the area. Clashes between the Congolese
allAfrica.com on MSN23h
France ramps up diplomacy as M23 rebels advance in eastern DRCPresident Emmanuel Macron is stepping up diplomatic efforts to address the worsening crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where violence between the Congolese army and M23 rebels
Dozens of demonstrators attacked several foreign embassies, including those of Rwanda, France and Belgium, on Tuesday demanding that they oppose the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into a major city in the country's conflict-battered east.
France 24 on MSN22h
DR Congo and Rwanda leaders in crisis talks as M23 rebels on brink of seizing GomaDR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi will meet Rwandan leader Paul Kagame for an emergency summit Wednesday as M23 rebels backed by Rwandan troops seemed to have seized swathes of the major city of
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