Congolese civilians who fled from Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, following fighting between M23 rebels and the Congolese army, arrive on a truck at a reception centre in Rugerero near Gisenyi, in Rubavu district, Rwanda on January 28, 2025.
Rebels seized the airport of east Congo’s largest city Goma on Tuesday, potentially cutting off the main route for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of displaced people, after capturing the city in an offensive that left dead bodies lying in the streets.
M23 fighters marched into Goma on Monday in the worst escalation since 2012 of a three-decade conflict rooted in the long fallout from the Rwandan genocide and the struggle for control of Congo’s abundant mineral resources.
