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Members of the M23 armed rank hike alongside residents by way of a street of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, on Monday. AFP/Getty Images
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A dissent federation claimed the collar of the biggest city in the Egalitarian Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region this week, pushing remote against resistance from government troops backed during regional and UN intervention forces.
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The takeover of Goma is yet another territorial gather for the Bond Fleuve Congo (AFC) flout coalition, which includes the M23 armed group sanctioned past the Joint States and the Amalgamated Nations.
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It is also a hasty flourishing of the coalition’s foothold across swathes of eastern DR Congo where rare minerals major to the output of phones and computers are mined and is credible to go downhill a long-running humanitarian crisis in the region.
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“AFC-M23 controls Goma,” Prizewinner Tesongo, an AFC spokesperson, told CNN Monday, adding that “Goma hew down under power” after the band’s earlier usurpation of the neighbourhood towns of Minova and Sake.
The Congolese government has up to this time to ensure the rebels’ takeover but acknowledges their self-assurance in the metropolis, super of the eastern North Kivu province. It announced Sunday it had intrude diplomatic ties with neighboring Rwanda, which it accuses of equipping the catalogue with both weapons and troops, and recalled its polite pole from the nation. A Rwandan government spokesperson did not withhold or back up the state’s support for M23 when asked by means of CNN.
More than a dozen unassimilable peacekeepers, as satisfactorily as the military governor of North Kivu province, entertain been killed in current days trying to fend touched in the head the rebels, as thousands of locals get away their loan a beforehand into Goma.
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