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The family ended up in one of the sprawling camps for displaced people, but after soldiers from the March 23 Movement (M23) ...
March 23 Movement (M23) fighters entered Goma on Sunday and claimed to have taken control of the city a day later. Three days of clashes between Congolese armed forces and the Rwanda-backed M23 ...
M23, or the March 23 Movement, is a militant group composed of ethnic Tutsis who broke away from the Congolese army just over a decade ago. The group rose to prominence in 2012 when its fighters ...
On Jan. 27, news broke that the rebels of the March 23 movement claimed they had seized the city after a deadly battle with the Congolese army, known by the French acronym FARDC.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Monday, ... The M23, or March 23 movement, refers to the date of an earlier peace agreement the group claims the Congolese government failed to honor.
Food prices skyrocket in DR Congo’s Goma after ... Rwanda-backed fighters from the March 23 Movement (M23) stormed into Goma, ... We were paying $20 for a bucket of rice and now it’s at least $23.
The move came amid escalating hostilities and territorial advances by the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels, which has recently seized control of Sake, a town considered the last defense for the ...
– At least 111 bodies were collected in the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, between Wednesday and Thursday after clashes between the army and the armed group March 23 Movement ...
The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, in her first visit to the eastern city since its capture by the insurgents.
In a major escalation in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), rebels from the March 23 Movement – or M23 – have seized Goma, the capital city of North Kivu province. At ...
PRETORIA, January 28. /TASS/. Military units of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and pro-government militia continued fighting rebels from the March 23 Movement and regular military units from ...
Members of the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group stand guard in Goma on January 29 [Reuters] Power cuts and looting As the fighting raged, the internet was cut off, and so were electricity and ...