Goma, the main city in the east of the Republic of Congo, faces fighters from the M23 antigan armed group and Rwandan soldiers.
“Goma is about to fall,” said French Minister for Foreign Affairs in the morning Jean-Noël Barrot.
“Goma is about to fall”. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot has no illusions on the fate of the big city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, confronted with the push of the M23 armed armed group.
“France expresses its solidarity with regard to the Democratic Republic of Congo, its territorial integrity. (…) The fights must stop and the dialogue must resume“, urged Jean-Noël Barrot to Brussels, before a Council of Foreign Affairs of the European Union. Goma woke up in the middle of chaos: heavy artillery fire, Rwandan troops and fighters of the fighters M23 antigan group who entered several districts.
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Sign of chaos prevailing in the city, the prison, which had around 3,000 detainees, was “totally burned“Following a”massive escape“Who caused”dead“, told AFP a security source, without giving an assessment at this stadium. Fun prisoners were seen by AFP in the surrounding streets. Bus departures were organized on Monday at the Rwandan border with the ‘is from the DRC, ready to evacuate UN staff to Kigali and their families from Goma, Rba’s Rba national radioteline announced.
-President Kenyan William Ruto announced in a statement bring together “In the next forty-eight hours“An extraordinary summit of the community of Eastern African States (EAC) in the presence of Congolese presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Rwandan Paul Kagame.
A DRC-Rwanda mediation under the aegis of Angola failed in December for lack of understanding on the conditions of an agreement. In eastern DRC rich in natural resources, conflicts have been linked for over 30 years.
