The M23 rebels announced the capture of Goma in a statement minutes before a 48-hour deadline imposed by the group for the Congolese army to surrender their weapons expired.
The army acknowledged Tuesday a "breakthrough" by the M23 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where the armed group fighting government forces has seized a trading hub that supplies the city of Goma.
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Congo-Kinshasa: DRC - 3 Questions On the Intensification of the Armed Conflict in North and South KivuPress Release - In recent weeks, the armed conflict between the M23/AFC and the Congolese army, backed by their allies, has flared up again in the province of North Kivu and spread to the neighbouring province of South Kivu.
Opposition parties are demanding answers and accountability from the South African government over the deaths of nine SA National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week.
With fighters from the M23 rebel movement appearing poised to enter the city of Goma, the U.N. Security Council met a day early on Sunday to discuss the fighting, in which three U.N. peacekeepers have been killed in the last two days.
The M23 rebel group has made significant territorial gains along the border with Rwanda in recent weeks, closing in on Goma, the provincial capital.
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Nine South African soldiers killed as eastern Congo conflict escalates
13 foreign soldiers killed in eastern Congo
At least 13 foreign soldiers, nine South African, have been killed in the worsening conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Congolese, UN and Southern African troops have been pushing back against the M23 rebel group that is campaigning to seize the North Kivu capital Goma.
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South African peacekeepers killed in DRC as fighting rages
The UN Security Council will convene an emergency meeting on Sunday over deadly clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, after Kinshasa withdrew its diplomats from Kigali as Rwanda-backed rebe
The UN chief Antonio Guterres said Rwanda was backing M23 rebels as they advance towards the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. DW has more.
Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has expressed concern over the grave situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and called for an
Rwanda-backed rebels have entered the outskirts of eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, and ordered government forces to surrender.
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