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Members of the M23 armed group shamble alongside residents by way of a concourse of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, on Monday. AFP/Getty Images
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A revolutionary association claimed the collar of the biggest burgh in the Egalitarian Republic of Congofs mineral-rich eastern region this week, pushing ruin against guerillas from guidance troops backed during regional and UN intervention forces.
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The takeover of Goma is further another territorial close in on to the Bond Fleuve Congo (AFC) flout coalition, which includes the M23 armed corps@sanctioned beside the Joint States and the United Nations.
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It is also a swift increase of the alliancefs foothold across swathes of eastern DR Congo@where rare minerals essential to the manufacturing of phones and computers are mined@and is credible to worsen a long-running humanitarian crisis in the region.
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gAFC-M23 controls Goma,h Victor Tesongo, an AFC spokesperson, told CNN Monday, adding that gGoma knock supervised burdenh after the clubfs earlier seizure of the nearby towns of Minova and Sake.
The Congolese government has despite everything to authorize the rebelsf takeover but acknowledges their presence in the burgh, capital of the eastern North Kivu province. It announced Sunday it had intrude diplomatic ties with neighboring Rwanda, which it accuses of equipping the collection with both weapons and troops, and recalled its diplomatic staff from the nation. A Rwandan command spokesperson did not deny or back up the statefs advocate for M23 when asked at hand CNN.
More than a dozen unassimilable peacekeepers, as graciously as the military governor of North Kivu district, entertain been killed in fresh days disquieting to fend off the rebels, as thousands of locals fly the coop their benefit into Goma.
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