Rising Violence in Goma Amid M23 Rebel Assault
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The city of Goma in eastern Congo is in turmoil as M23 rebel forces escalate their offensive, resulting in thousands of civilian casualties, widespread chaos, and a deteriorating humanitarian crisis.
Goma, in eastern Congo, faces a grave humanitarian crisis as M23, a Rwanda-backed rebel group, intensifies its assault on the city. The conflict has left corpses in the streets, where militia troops patrol in vehicles seized from the Congolese army, and missiles are launched overhead.