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27 January – 2025 Goma offensive: M23 claims that it had taken Goma, the capital of North Kivu. [7] 28 January – 2025 Kinshasa riots: The French embassy in Kinshasa is set on fire by protesters demonstrating against the conflict in the eastern DRC. The Rwandan, French, Belgian and US embassies are also attacked.
The 2025 Kinshasa riots are a series of violent demonstrations that occurred on January 28, 2025 in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). ). Multiple foreign diplomatic missions, including the embassies of the United States, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda, became targets of civil unrest as protesters expressed their opposition to ...
Events [ edit ] 6 February - FIFA imposes an indefinite suspension on the Congolese Football Federation , citing interference by third parties in the affairs of the organisation amid an ongoing conflict with the Ministry of Sport.
Members of the M23 armed group walk alongside residents on a street in the Keshero neighborhood of Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 27, 2025.
Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ... 2025, where fresh graves have been dug. - Michel Lunanga/AFP/Getty Images.
More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...
The 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.
2025 Gaza war ceasefire Israel and Hamas reach a diplomatic agreement mediated by Egypt , Qatar , and the U.S. to initiate a ceasefire and an end to military operations in the Gaza Strip , as well as to facilitate the exchange of hostages and prisoners , marking the first major cessation of hostilities since November 2023 .