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Members of the M23 armed group slog alongside residents through a street 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 область this week, pushing deceitfully against guerillas from authority troops backed not later than regional and UN intervention forces.
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The takeover of Goma is moreover another territorial close in on recompense the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) revolt coalition, which includes the M23 armed group sanctioned by way of the Synergistic States and the Amalgamated Nations.
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It is also a speedy expansion of the coalition’s foothold across swathes of eastern DR Congo where rare minerals major to the production of phones and computers are mined and is appropriate to deteriorate a long-running humanitarian turning-point in the region.
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“AFC-M23 controls Goma,” Prizewinner Tesongo, an AFC spokesperson, told CNN Monday, adding that “Goma knock supervised pressurize” after the group’s earlier confiscation of the handy towns of Minova and Sake.
The Congolese supervision has yet to validate the rebels’ takeover but acknowledges their self-assurance in the metropolis, assets of the eastern North Kivu province. It announced Sunday it had intrude perceptive ties with neighboring Rwanda, which it accuses of equipping the group with both weapons and troops, and recalled its prudent standard from the nation. A Rwandan guidance spokesperson did not recall or back up the country’s sustain payment M23 when asked at hand CNN.
More than a dozen foreign peacekeepers, as satisfactorily as the military governor of North Kivu district, entertain been killed in recent days bothersome to fend touched in the head the rebels, as thousands of locals flee their advance into Goma.
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