Goma

Congo’s M23 rebels consolidate control over a devastated Goma

The United States told Rwanda it was "deeply troubled" by the fall of Goma in eastern Congo to Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, who appeared on Wednesday to have consolidated control over the city of nearly 2 million in just two days. Isolated bursts of gunfire sounded through some outlying districts of the lakeside city, where Monday's rebel storming left bodies lying in the streets, hospitals overwhelmed and U.N. peacekeepers sheltering in their bases. The rebels seized the city's international ai...

January 28, 2025 4:33 PM

Congo rebels face some resistance in Goma, more peacekeepers killed

Gunfire rippled across east Congo's largest city Goma where Rwandan-backed M23 rebels still faced pockets of resistance from army and pro-government militias on Tuesday, while another four South African peacekeepers were killed. Many dead bodies lay in the streets and hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties, a U.N. official said. The rebels marched into the lakeside city of two million people on Monday in the worst escalation since 2012 of a three-decade conflict rooted in the Rwandan genoc...