Goma these days: One year of M23 rule

Fruit traders display their stock at the busy Kituku open-air market on the shores of Lake Kivu in Goma, eastern DR Congo.

Photo credit: Jackson Mutinda | Nation Media Group

At La Corniche one-stop border post between Gisenyi in Rwanda and Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, jostling at the immigration counters signals pent-up demand to cross.

Morning and evening, hundreds of Congolese and Rwandans commute for work and trade.