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Al Jazeera Staff

Tense calm, fears for the future in DRC’s Goma a week after M23 takeover

Internally displaced people carry some of their belongings as they walk past the CBCA Mugunga Church, located at the Mugunga IDP camp in Goma [Michel Lunanga/AFP]

On a road west of Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mary Ashuza and her children walked, carrying their last remaining belongings with them.

Ashuza, a farmer and mother of five in her 40s, fled to North Kivu from her home in neighbouring South Kivu province in mid-January, after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and violent clashes broke out between the armed group and the Congolese army.

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