The U.N. health agency says at least 900 people were killed in last week’s fighting in Goma between the rebels and Congolese forces.
By Chinedu Asadu and Justin Kabumba, Associated PressM23 rebels patrol in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.
The city of 2 million people is at the heart of a region home to trillions of dollars in mineral wealth and remains in rebel control. The M23 were reported to be gaining ground in other areas of eastern Congo and advancing on another provincial capital, Bukavu. Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies, or G7, urged parties in the conflict to return to negotiations. In a statement on Monday, they called for a “rapid, safe and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians.”
The latest fighting forced hundreds of thousands of people who had been displaced by years of conflict to carry what remained of their belongings and flee again. Thousands poured into nearby Rwanda. On Monday, families desperate to identify their loved ones besieged morgues as body bags were loaded onto trucks for burials in Goma.
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