Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fell into the hands of M23 rebels

In response to this development, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has adapted by deploying mobile teams to provide life-saving healthcare to people who are once again forced to move, returning to hometowns they had previously fled.

Kanyuka argues that the M23 fighters did not raid but conducted a peaceful operation against 130 Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) soldiers who were hiding in hospitals.   Goma, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | The March 23 Movement (M23) have dismissed accusations against them of raiding hospitals in Goma city,

Businesses are struggling to survive, financial transactions are almost impossible, and people are having trouble making ends meet.

Following fighting and evacuation orders from the Mouvement du 23 Mars/Alliance Fleuve Congo (M23/AFC) group, hundreds of thousands of people have left the displacement camps around Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

According to a statement from the North Kivu DGDA, all cargo coming from M23-controlled areas will be considered as foreign goods entering the country for the first time

Following his tour of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in eastern DR Congo, Alain Destexhe, a former Belgian senator, said that he found the city to be peaceful as inhabitants went about their businesses in normalcy.

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may now be endangered.

This publication has learnt that the government, in an attempt to salvage lost revenues from border posts in the M23 zone, had tried to re-tax goods.

Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the danger of hunger, a Baptist leader there said.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday that about 1 million people have been displaced since the beginning of 2025 in Goma, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) seized by March 23 Movement (M23) rebels.

In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the serious human rights violations and