Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo’s largest city Goma on Monday, and the U.N. said they were supported by at least some regular Rwandan troops, in the worst escalation of aΒ long-running conflictΒ for more than a decade.
A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million people, a hub for displaced people and aid groups lying on the border with Rwanda and last occupied by M23 in 2012.
Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo's Goma in major escalation https://t.co/h7oloWIKuB
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) January 28, 2025
