Some people cheered as the fighters entered the city without resistance, two days after taking the airport.
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NEW YORK, 14 February 2025 / PRN Africa / -- "The frontline is getting closer to Kavumu Airport," warned Bruno Lemarquis on Wednesday. Following the fall of regional capital Goma, in North Kivu, at the end of January, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed ...
M23 rebels have advanced into the centre of Bukavu, South Kivu's capital, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Last month, M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.
The fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has connections with a decadeslong ethnic conflict. Congolese soldiers were seen fleeing with civilians amid looting and panic.
Rwanda-backed rebels have reached the center of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and taken control of the South Kivu province administrative office ...
Boateng joins Tracy Kababiito (African Folktales), Wale Ojo (The Foundation), and Isabelle Kabano (Sometimes in April) in the film.
Fears of new massacres in Congo's second largest city have arisen after Rwandan-backed rebels entered its outskirts following reports of mass sexual violence against women and children.
Panic and looting are sweeping through eastern Congo's second largest city as residents fled by the thousands to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels. It came a day after ...
Panic swept through eastern Congo's second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.