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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.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Rwandan-backed rebels marched into the centre of east Congo's largest city on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of decades of conflict ...
Ruth Maclean, West Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, told CBS News this week that the increase of violence in Goma was of particular concern as, for months, people from the surrounding ...
M23 fighters entered Goma on Monday in the. ... M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led, Rwandan-backed insurgencies that have brought tumult to Congo since the aftermath of the genocide ...
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels laying siege to eastern Congo's largest city Goma ordered defending government forces late on Sunday to disarm and surrender ...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo’s key city of Goma announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region Monday for humanitarian reasons, following calls for a safe corridor for aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced people. The M23 rebels said the ceasefire would start Tuesday.
Congo's presidency said Tshisekedi would address the nation later on Wednesday in his first public comments since the rebels marched on Goma. M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led ...
On February 5, 2025, M23 forces captured the strategic mining town of Nyabibwe, positioned halfway between Goma and Bukavu.United Nations officials confirmed rebel forces had advanced to within 50 kilometres (31 miles) of Bukavu, while maintaining control over Goma's transportation infrastructure, including all exit routes and the city's airport. [18]