Congo fighting: Rise of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels harder to stop this time
M23's last occupation of Goma was short-lived, and within a year they were a defeated force. This time, things are different.
M23 rebels in Goma: gains to boost illicit mineral trade through Rwanda, analysts say
The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.
Congo's M23 rebels control devastated Goma as mercenaries exit via Rwanda
By Yassin Kombi and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed rebels strengthened their ...
Analysis-Rise of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Congo harder to stop this time
After three years on the run from the Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency in eastern Congo, on Sunday, with the rebels fighting ...
M23 rebels expand their control in east Congo as Rwanda’s Kagame joins calls for ceasefire
Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of eastern Congo’s largest city including its airport, the United Nations said, as ...
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim major Congolese city, which Congo calls a 'declaration of war'
Rwanda-backed rebels claim they have captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, as the United Nations describe a “mass ...
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Why Are Congo and Rwanda on the Brink of War?
M23 is under the military command of Sultani Makenga, a Congolese rebel who fought in Rwanda in the 1990s, joined the Congolese Army in the 2000s and then defected to join M23 in 2012. Mr. Makenga ...
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Rwandan-backed rebels clash with Congolese forces over control of Goma
Congolese Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner condemned the rebels’ advance as a ... and well-documented history of supporting M23. Rwanda’s Foreign Ministry blamed the violence ...
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Rwanda, the West’s ‘Donor Darling,’ Seizes an Opportunity in Congo
the rebel group M23 was right behind them. M23, which the United Nations and others say is funded and armed by Rwanda, declared that it had captured Goma early on Monday. Now, with the fate of the ...
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Demonstrators attack foreign embassies in Congo’s capital to protest rebels' advance in the east
demanding that they oppose the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into a major city in the country’s conflict-battered east GOMA, Congo -- Dozens of demonstrators attacked several foreign ...
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Congo tries to slow assault of rebels
People protest in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Tuesday, against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels’ advances into eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma. The Associated Press Congolese ...