Goma, DRC: Nearly 3,000 people killed after rebels seize key …
3 days ago · Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce ...
Goma - Wikipedia
Goma is the capital and largest city of the North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu and shares borders with Bukumu Chiefdom to the north, Rwanda to the east and Masisi Territory to the west.
DR Congo conflict: What is the fighting in Goma about?
Jan 27, 2025 · After a rapid advance in the region, fighters from the M23 rebel group have captured almost all of Goma – a major city of more than a million people in the east of DR Congo.
‘Days of Mass Burials Ahead’ as Congo Mourns Its Dead in Goma
4 days ago · In Goma on Wednesday, pockets of the city remained unreachable to humanitarian agencies that lost months of aid in looting last week. Medicine, bags of rice from the World Food Program and cans of ...
Thousands flee fighting in Congo as rebels claim they've captured …
Jan 28, 2025 · GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have claimed they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped.. Analysts said the M23 fighters aimed to control the city of about 2 million people and perhaps other areas in the region …
Bodies on streets, hospitals struggle, battles intensify in DR Congo’s Goma
Jan 28, 2025 · DRC’s Rural Development Minister Muhindo Nzangi said the Congolese army controlled 80 percent of Goma, with Rwandan troops either on the city’s outskirts or back across the border.
Life in Goma After a Rebel Takeover - The New York Times
Feb 1, 2025 · For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much uncertainty. Rwanda-backed rebels took control of Goma, a city on Lake Kivu ...
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key …
Jan 28, 2025 · Goma is home to around two million people and is the largest city in North Kivu. ... Goma’s fall to M23 “will be the symbol of its complete and total capture” of the eastern part of the DRC.”
DR Congo emergency: Fears that regional capital Goma faces attack
Jan 24, 2025 · Intensifying hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo involving the non-state armed group M23 have caused further mass displacement in the mineral-rich region, with fears that the...
DR Congo violence: Panic in Goma as M23 rebels advance - BBC
Feb 11, 2024 · Rebels from the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 movement are blocking the two main roads into Goma from the north and the west and preventing produce from getting through.