3 days ago · The Goma offensive is an ongoing military campaign launched by the March 23 Movement (M23) Congolese rebel group against the regional capital of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The fighting is part of the larger M23 offensive in the North and South Kivu provinces of the DRC, which resumed in October 2024 after a pause. During January 2025, the M23 rebel group made a rapid ...

17 hours ago · Item 1 of 2 Civilians who evacuated from Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), amid conflict between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC ...

22 hours ago · GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese ... M23 appears to be preparing to stay in Congo for good, telling the AP of their plans to set up an administration and return displaced people to their homes. Analysts have warned that securing a rebel withdrawal could be more difficult than in 2012, when M23 first captured Goma but withdrew after days. ...

1 day ago · The takeover of Goma is yet another territorial gain for the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebel coalition, which includes the M23 armed group – sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations.

5 days ago · DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the city of Goma, the government’s last stronghold in the region bordering Rwanda.. The offensive by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has stretched local hospitals to the limit, with hundreds of wounded coming in every day as civilians get caught ...

1 day ago · Some 400,000 people have fled their homes in eastern Congo as the rebels advanced on Goma, ... In 2012, M23 pulled out of Goma after Rwanda withdrew its support to the group. Western donors later ...

2 days ago · M23 fighters marched into Goma on Monday in the worst escalation since 2012 of a three-decade conflict rooted in the long fallout from the Rwandan genocide and the struggle for control of Congo's ...

6 days ago · GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in eastern Congo’s main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were heard going off in the city’s distant outskirts and hundreds of wounded civilians were brought in to the main hospital from the area of the fighting.

3 days ago · The M23 took Goma once before in 2012, withdrawing after considerable international pressure was put on Rwanda. Yet Congo experts say it might be harder this time to talk M23 down as their motives ...

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.