Rwanda-backed rebels move deeper into eastern Congo as UN reports executions and rapes
Rwanda-backed rebels were expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region's major city, the U.N.
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Rwanda-backed rebels pressing toward Bukavu in Congo, UN says
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are moving “rapidly” through South Kivu province toward the city of Bukavu in eastern Democratic ...
Rwanda-backed rebels bed down in Congo's Goma and push south for further gains
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to ...
DR Congo Invasion: Rwanda-backed M23 Rebels Storm Bukavu After Goma; Capital Kinshasa To Fall Next?
After the fall of Goma, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are now marching towards Bukavu in DR Congo's South Kivu. The militia is ...
M23 Rebels Prepare to March on Bukavu After Seizing Eastern Regional Capital
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, M23 fighters say they will march on the city of Bukavu, after the Rwanda-backed group seized control of the eastern city of Goma. The head of the Congo River ...
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Rwanda-backed M23 advances in DRC as volunteers rally to fight back
The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo, with queues of young men volunteering to defend a provincial capital on Friday. Scores of young ...
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Rwanda, the West’s ‘Donor Darling,’ Seizes an Opportunity in Congo
Rwanda has as many as 4,000 troops in eastern ... Protests also broke out in Bukavu, a larger city to Goma’s south to which some Congolese officers are thought to have fled.
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Congo-Rwanda border shut as M23 rebels claim Goma capture
Some Congolese military personnel surrendered to UN peacekeeping forces following an ultimatum by M23, while others fled by boat across Lake Kivu to Bukavu ... by neighboring Rwanda, is one ...
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Congo-Kinshasa: The Fall of Goma
After all, Rwanda backed the movement that led to the ... has said that "Our objective is neither Goma nor Bukavu but Kinshasa, the source of all the problems." Ironically, this very man ...
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Rwandan-backed rebels capture Goma in dramatic escalation of Congo war
A heavily armed Rwandan-backed militia marched into the strategic city of Goma in eastern Congo on Monday, seizing control of most of the regional hub in defiance of United Nations demands for its ...
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Rwandan-Backed Rebels Enter Congo's Goma in Major Escalation
Rwanda's army said Congolese shelling had killed ... "Our objective is neither Goma nor Bukavu but Kinshasa, the source of all the problems," he said, referring to the Congolese capital, more ...
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Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo's Goma in major escalation
Rwanda said fighting near the border threatened ... causing a new displacement and humanitarian crisis. In the town of Bukavu, about 200 km south of Goma at the opposite end of Lake Kivu ...