War-battered eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ravaged by new conflict

29/01/2025 11:27 France 24

Goma, the main city in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, is set to fall to the M23 armed group and Rwandan army -- the latest upheaval in a region devastated by three decades of war.

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