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The 2025 Goma offensive was a military operation launched by the March 23 Movement (M23), a Congolese rebel group that is part of the Congo River Alliance (AFC) and is supported by Rwanda, against the regional capital of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It lasted from January 23 to January 30, 2025.
The conflict has regional complications with the involvement of Congo's southern and eastern neighbors, whose armies were invited by Tshisekedi when M23 resurfaced at the end of 2021. Some of Congo's allies have suffered losses, including South Africa with 14 peacekeepers killed in the fighting for Goma.
Tshisekedi, a member of the Luba ethnic group, was born in Kinshasa on 13 June 1963 to mother Marthe and father Étienne Tshisekedi, who served as Prime Minister of Zaire in the 1990s. [9] He had a comfortable life as a youth in the capital, but when his father created the UDPS in the early 1980s, publicly opposing Mobutu , Félix was forced to ...
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi, who attended the summit in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam by videoconference, has previously said he would never talk to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels he sees as driven to exploit his country’s vast mineral wealth.
After serving part of his sentence, he was released in December 2023 after a pardon from President Félix Tshisekedi. [6] On 13 February 2025, Idengo was shot dead while filming a music video in Goma. He was 31. [7] His body was found on a road in Kilijiwe district dressed in military pants, which he was wearing for his music video. [8]
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi was officially nominated on Sunday as candidate for the Dec. 20 presidential election by his ruling political coalition the Sacred ...
He planned to run candidates at all levels for the upcoming 2023 general election, [4] including running for the presidency himself. He later engaged in a public dispute with Tshisekedi over the alleged backroom deals linked to the 2018 vote, and in August 2023, exiled himself from the country, believing his security was no longer guaranteed there.
Fighting between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels resumed in October 2024 after having slowed down, and intensified towards the end of the year. Planned negotiations between Rwandan president Paul Kagame and Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi in December were cancelled over disagreements about preconditions. [23]