01/28/2025

In Major Escalation, Rwandan-backed Rebels Enter Congo's Goma

Ethnic Tutsi-led M23 rebels enter the city of Goma

Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo's largest city Goma on Monday. The the U.N. said they were supported by at least some regular Rwandan troops, in the worst escalation of a long-running conflict for more than a decade.

A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million people, a hub for displaced people and aid groups lying on the border with Rwanda and last occupied by M23 in 2012.

Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance that includes the M23, told Reuters his forces controlled the city.

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