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Voice of America · 2d

UN warns of worrying humanitarian situation in DRC’s Goma amid assault by Rwanda-backed rebels

The United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and senior U.N. officials are calling for the M23 to immediately cease hostilities and withdraw from occupied territories. They have called for the withdrawal of Rwandan forces and a return to the Luanda process of mediation overseen by Angolan President Joao Lourenco.

U.S. News & World Report · 3d

Fighting Ongoing Across DRC's Goma, Rwanda Troops in City, Says UN

"Active zones of combat have spread to all quarters of the city, all the neighborhoods of the city," Lemarquis, the deputy U.N. envoy and top U.N. aid official in the DRC, told reporters in New York via video from Kinshasa.

CNN on MSN · 5d

Six peacekeepers killed fighting rebels in eastern Congo, officials say, as rebels close in on Goma

Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six United Nations peacekeepers dead, UN officials said Saturday.

M23, UN and Goma

Bloomberg on MSN · 9h

UN Warns of Health Risk in DRC Amid M23 Takeover in Goma

The United Nations warned of an ongoing humanitarian disaster as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Power and water have been cut off, more than 1,000 wounded people have filled the city's hospitals and almost 1 million have been displaced,

M23 rebels seen in centre of Goma, DRC, despite UN demand for them to leave, witnesses say

M23 vows to defend Tutsi interests, particularly against ethnic Hutu militias such as the FDLR, which was founded by Hutus who fled Rwanda after participating in the 1994 genocide of more than 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Reuters on MSN · 8h

Having seized Goma, Congo's M23 rebels want to show they can govern

By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) -When M23 rebels swept into the Congolese city of Goma this week, world powers urged them to immediately withdraw. Instead, the Rwanda-backed insurgents are intent on showing they can restore order and govern.

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Humanitarian situation in DRC's Goma 'extremely worrying': UN

The UN on Tuesday said the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was "extremely worrying" amid mass ...

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Congo's M23 rebels take control of Goma airport, embassies attacked in capital

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, on Wednesday, Netanyahu said in a ...

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‘No safe place to go to from Goma’ for millions as humanitarian crisis looms in eastern Congo city

Bodies are lying on the streets. Medical staff in overwhelmed hospitals are treating hundreds of wounded civilians against ...

Daily Nation on MSN2d

Chaos in Congo's Goma: Embassies of Rwanda, France & US attacked; UN says dead bodies lie in streets

A day after the rebels marched into the lakeside city, protesters in the capital attacked a UN compound and embassies ...

The Daily Monitor on MSN3d

Goma hospitals overwhelmed with wounded, dead bodies in the streets, UN agencies say

Patients are waiting in the corridors for lack of beds while the hospital car park had been converted into a triage centre ...

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Thousands flee fighting in Congo as rebels claim they’ve captured the key city of Goma

Thousands fled the city of Goma on Monday as fighting raged between Congolese forces and rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda, ...

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Congolese president snubs peace talks over Goma crisis

Speaking to BBC Newshour while being locked down in a UN bunker in the city, the deputy head of the UN force, Vivian van de ...

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Congo's president calls for massive military mobilization to fight rebels

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo's largest city said on Thursday they want to take their fight to the far-off ...

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