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  2. North Kivu - Wikipedia

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    North Kivu (Swahili: Jimbo la Kivu Kaskazini) is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. [3] The capital city is Goma.Spanning approximately 59,483 square kilometers with a population estimate of 8,147,400 as of 2020, [4] [5] it is bordered by Ituri Province to the north, Tshopo Province to the northwest, Maniema Province to the southwest, and South Kivu ...

  3. Kivu conflict - Wikipedia

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    According to the Congo Research Group (a study project at New York University), as of 2018, 134 armed groups are active in North and South Kivu. [138] On 31 October 2019, the Congolese army launched a large scale offensive against the ADF in the Beni Territory of the North Kivu Province. According to spokesman General Leon Richard Kasonga, "The ...

  4. Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into ...

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    Goma is home to around two million people and is the largest city in North Kivu. M23’s incursion on Monday was the second time the group had moved to capture the provincial capital after it ...

  5. Rebels call for ceasefire in DR Congo after hundreds are ...

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    Fighting erupted last week as the rebels advanced into Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province. More than a dozen foreign peacekeepers, as well as the military governor of North Kivu ...

  6. Congo's M23 rebels say they will seize eastern city overnight

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    The M23 rebels have made lightning advances this month in Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich, conflict-riven eastern borderlands and launched an assault on Goma, the capital of North Kivu ...

  7. Goma - Wikipedia

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    Goma is the capital and largest city of the North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu and shares borders with Bukumu Chiefdom to the north, Rwanda to the east and Masisi Territory to the west.

  8. U.N. warns of executions and gang rapes as war in Congo ... - AOL

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    The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, earlier in the week was a dramatic escalation in a region that has seen decades of conflict involving multiple armed groups ...

  9. Kivu - Wikipedia

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    Kivu was the name for a large "region" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko that bordered Lake Kivu. It included three "Sub-Regions" ("Sous-Régions" in French): Nord-Kivu , Sud-Kivu and Maniema , corresponding to the three current provinces created in 1986. [ 1 ]

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