Author: Elian Peltier and Guerchom Ndebo
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00
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Volunteers buried those who died during a week of clashes in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. “We have days of mass burials ahead of us,” says Myriam Favier, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gomas. Millions have died in the past 30 years in Congo, where ethnic tensions and fighting over access to land and mineral resources have erupted into several wars. The fighting between M23, a rebel group that the U.N. Says More than 2,800 additional Congolese have been wounded, nearly two thirds of them civilians. The ongoing conflict has already drawn in mercenaries from Eastern Europe. U.N. Peacekeepers who have been deployed in eastern Congo for a dozen years have been accused by both sides of not doing enough to end the fighting. On Wednesday, M23 broke a unilateral cease-fire it had declared days earlier. Jean de Dieu Balezi, known as Kibomango, was killed by a stray bullet. M23 has ordered locals to clean Goma’s streets, but they remain littered with military uniforms abandoned by Congolese soldiers. Two of their sons were wounded by bullets when they were in their courtyard.
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