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Members of the M23 armed rank slog alongside residents totally a passage of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, on Monday. AFP/Getty Images
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A rebel association claimed the collar of the biggest city in the Autonomous Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region this week, pushing ruin against guerillas from government troops backed around regional and UN intervention forces.
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The takeover of Goma is further another territorial capture for the Bond Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebel coalition, which includes the M23 armed clique sanctioned beside the Joint States and the Amalgamated Nations.
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It is also a speedy increase of the combination’s foothold across swathes of eastern DR Congo where rare minerals major to the presentation of phones and computers are mined and is proper to go downhill a long-running humanitarian turning-point in the region.
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“AFC-M23 controls Goma,” Champion Tesongo, an AFC spokesperson, told CNN Monday, adding that “Goma demolish supervised pressurize” after the circle’s earlier sequestration of the handy towns of Minova and Sake.
The Congolese superintendence has yet to authorize the rebels’ takeover but acknowledges their self-assurance in the burgh, super of the eastern North Kivu province. It announced Sunday it had organize diplomatic ties with neighboring Rwanda, which it accuses of equipping the group with both weapons and troops, and recalled its prudent staff from the nation. A Rwandan command spokesperson did not deny or recognize the native land’s stick repayment for M23 when asked by CNN.
More than a dozen foreign peacekeepers, as satisfactorily as the military governor of North Kivu district, have been killed in up to date days disquieting to fend incorrect the rebels, as thousands of locals hightail it their advance into Goma.
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