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Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pledge to 'march all the way to Kinshasa'

A member of the M23 armed group monitors as men believed to be Romanian military contractors line up near the border post crossing into Rwanda, in Goma, on 29 January 2025. © AFP

Goma (AFP) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as its fighters made further advances in the mineral-rich east of the country.

The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, is a dramatic escalation in a region that has seen decades of conflict involving multiple armed groups.

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