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Al Jazeera
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Bojana Coulibaly

‘We are waging an existential war’: M23’s Bertrand Bisimwa on DRC conflict

M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa [Teddy Mazina/Al Jazeera]

For three years, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been embroiled in an armed conflict between the army and the M23 rebel group that has killed hundreds of people and displaced nearly two million.

M23 was first formed after a mutiny within the Congolese national army (FARDC) in 2012. Though the initial rebellion was crushed, the group took up arms against the army and allied “Wazalendo” self-defence groups again in 2022, and has since seized swaths of territory in North Kivu province.

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