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    2025 Goma offensive - Wikipedia
    LocationGoma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
    DateJanuary 23 – 30, 2025 · (1 week)
    ResultM23 victory · M23 rebels capture Goma · M23 declares a unilateral ceasefire · Beginning of riots in DR Congo capital
    Background

    Goma has a population of around two million and is the provincial capital of North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), being the largest city in the province. The Rwandan-backed rebel group Marc… See more

    Offensive

    M23 captured Sake, a town and critical road junction west of Goma that connected the city to the rest of country, from the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) on January 23. This allowed them to cut off its main suppl… See more

    Aftermath

    With the fall of Goma nearly all of North Kivu is under M23 control. As M23 captured most of the city, the rebel group's forces in the South Kivu province along the western shore of Lake Kivu began an offensive in the direction of … See more

    Analysis

    The fall of Goma represents the biggest escalation in the Kivu conflict since the brief occupation of it by M23 in 2012 and has led the current M23 offensive to be compared to the First and Second Congo Wars of the 1990s and … See more

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