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Members of the M23 armed rank shamble alongside residents by way of a byway someone's cup of tea of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, on Monday. AFP/Getty Images
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A dissent alliance claimed the collar of the biggest burgh in the Autonomous Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern область this week, pushing remote against intransigence from guidance troops backed not later than regional and UN intervention forces.
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The takeover of Goma is further another territorial gather to the Connection Fleuve Congo (AFC) revolt coalition, which includes the M23 armed corps sanctioned by way of the United States and the Of one mind Nations.
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It is also a swift expansion of the alliance’s foothold across swathes of eastern DR Congo where rare minerals essential to the manufacturing of phones and computers are mined and is proper to go downhill a long-running humanitarian emergency in the region.
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“AFC-M23 controls Goma,” Winner Tesongo, an AFC spokesperson, told CNN Monday, adding that “Goma demolish secondary to power” after the club’s earlier confiscation of the nearby towns of Minova and Sake.
The Congolese government has up to this time to confirm the rebels’ takeover but acknowledges their self-assurance in the burgh, money of the eastern North Kivu province. It announced Sunday it had pain perspicacious ties with neighboring Rwanda, which it accuses of equipping the group with both weapons and troops, and recalled its thoughtful staff from the nation. A Rwandan command spokesperson did not deny or confirm the woods’s sustain payment M23 when asked by CNN.
More than a dozen unassimilable peacekeepers, as incredibly as the military governor of North Kivu province, have planned been killed in recent days disquieting to fend unlikely the rebels, as thousands of locals hightail it their advance into Goma.
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