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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 March 23 Movement (French: Mouvement du 23 mars), often abbreviated as M23 and also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army (Armée révolutionnaire du Congo), [8] is a Congolese Tutsi-led rebel paramilitary group. [9]
M23 rebels in Goma, November 2012. The March 23 Movement waged a rebellion in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2012 to 2013. M23 was formed by deserters of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), who had integrated into the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) following a 2009 peace agreement.
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.
As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi ...
After three years on the run from the Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency in eastern Congo, on Sunday, with the rebels fighting their way into Goma's city outskirts, Colleta Nzambonimpa found herself in ...
M23 rebellion or M23 campaign may refer to: M23 rebellion (2012–2013) , an armed conflict in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo M23 campaign (2022–present) , an offensive in North Kivu against the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The well-equipped M23 is the latest in a long line of ethnic Tutsi-led rebel movements to emerge in Congo's volatile east. Congo's government says it is a Rwandan proxy, which the rebel group and ...