Conflict in eastern DR Congo flares again – DW – 10/25/2023
After months of fragile calm in eastern DR Congo, fighting between armed rebels has resumed near the country's borders with Rwanda and Uganda.
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After months of fragile calm in eastern DR Congo, fighting between armed rebels has resumed near the country's borders with Rwanda and Uganda.
After months of fragile calm in eastern Congo, fighting has resumed near the borders with Rwanda and Uganda. Experts say the unresolved conflict puts the entire Great Lakes Region at risk.
The smell of decomposing bodies filled the air as cemetery workers in eastern Congo unloaded dozens of coffins at the final resting place for victims of one of the deadliest crackdowns on protests in recent local memory. The burials continued as darkness fell. At least 56 people were killed on Aug. 30, according to a military prosecutor, after Congolese soldiers in the city of Goma opened fire on protesters ahead of a demonstration against the presence of U.N. peacekeepers.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, activists terrorized by conflict for decades are stepping in to try to break the cycle of violence.
Download logoCongolese army units backed armed groups implicated in serious abuses in the recent conflict with M23 rebel forces in eastern Democratic