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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro

'Tired of this war': Congolese cope with M23 rebel violence

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Kavira Mathe was making dinner for her two sons when bullets began flying. Eastern Congo's M23 rebels had attacked her village, killing scores of civilians. She and others fled for their lives, she said.

“I lost several friends,” said Mathe speaking to The Associated Press by phone from Kanyabayonga where she now shelters. Trekking 50 kilometers (some 30 miles) to safety, she saw roads littered with bodies that appeared to have been bound and shot, she said.

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