Thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been on the move, fleeing for safety after seeing soldiers retreating.
The conflict between the military and the M23 fighters is moving closer to Goma, the regional capital of North Kivu province.
The DRC government has repeatedly accused Rwanda of backing the rebels, an allegation it denies.
Al Jazeera’s @Malcolm Webb reports from Goma, the DRC.
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East Africa community regional Force to the rescue 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 jumuiya yetu idumu milele
@The Notorious Traveller KE. you can recall that Zimbabwe used to be prosperous country before they got involved with congo conflict. kenya is making huge mistakes and it would pay with their blood.
@Hassan Abdiomar it’s not KENYA alone,each country from the EACF is contributing it’s efforts towards stabilizing DRC zimbabwe doesn’t even share anything with DRC
They are all working for UN to keep Congo a failed state. The EAC Force is in DRC under the umbrella of UN, how do you expect them to bring peace?
@John Lembo you are lying 🤥 EACRF is african business we have troops in UN MONUSCO and also have others in EACRF HQ IN GOMA
@John Lembo which country do you come from!? We perspective is just allegations and thinking of those who people who don’t want Congo to stabilize forever
HOW COME YOU DID REPORT THE HUNDREDS OF CONGOLESE FLEEING TO RWANDA FOR SAFETY? THE BIAS IS EVIDENT.
So sad.. Jesus Christ help 😭😭
I know things will settle down soon with our prayers
Prayers? If someone breaks an arm, do we fix it by praying?
@A Em Ignoramus, read 2 Kings 6:18. ONE prophet made a whole whole army “blind” and zombified. Incase you dont believe in God or the bible, then you r worse than an ignoramus, and I have nothing to tell you.
@fullblastrecognize Just because something is written in the Bible doesn’t mean it is true. Violence against Congolese people by Western armed Rwanda has been going on for multiple decades. They have been praying but God hasn’t helped, they’ve been praying for decades. It is time to take responsibility. The Bible is filled with false stories.
@fullblastrecognize The Bible was brought to Africa by the colonizers, the enslavers, the mutilators, the murderers, the r@pists, the human-traffickers. The Bible says be submissive and obey your masters, it was used to justify slavery.
who is funding the rebels?? what ethic group are the rebels??? There is no way to answer these two questions without names like Museveni and Kagame popping up. As long as these two guys are alive, the east african union is a joke together with peace in the region
UN and DRC are just sleeping on the real cause of this war. M23 are not rebels or Rwandan army are Congolese who have ancestry in Rwanda but became Congolese due to Berlin conference which caused by American and European nations. Those young men are freedom fighters for their family’s life and their rights just like all other Congolese. So stop calling them rebels and fix the issue from the roots. Declaring war yo them it’s not the long time solution because even if the get defeated other young men in camps in east Africa countries will eventually come back home it won’t be so good for everyone.
There is already a hardship..then people decided to add some more..
This is sad 😢😢
If M23 capture Goma … Kigali will pay the price. Because Congolese soldiers are not going to destroy their own town . So Rwanda must be ready .
@Free-safe Do you even know the meaning of Pan-Africanism? Or do you think you will use just the word panafrica to pass through borders and rape women, kill people in mass , you even steal gorillas from our national park… Is this panafrica? With no respect of human kind? You should be ashamed of talking about one Africa without borders for you to get the diabolic opportunity to go around Africa to rape and kill like what Kagame has been doing since 1990. I don’t think your way. I talk about one Africa only when there will be respect of fellow African brothers and their lands. Do you even recognize that Rwandans are killing in Congo since 1996 before you talk to me about panafrica? Congolese have sacrified a lots for their mothers land. The whole world know that Congolese have been killed by Rwandans in coalision with white people to divide the country but Congo still undivided till today and it will remain so for our children’s children and so on… I am also reminding you that it s less than 100 kilometers that separate the DRC borders from Kigali. No 200 no 300. Only 100km. So the whole Rwanda will see what is to come.
@PT Nsaka there is no Country accept refugees to enter in their country with weapons as you did 1994! To support FDLR is the hug mistake Congo did if you took their weapons and send them to Rwanda, you will bever find this insecurity! You still supporting them using them to fight others rebellions! Just sit and feel the consequences!
@PT Nsaka is you who don’t know the meaning of Panafricanism if you know that code of division you have in you head must not be there. You don’t want Africa to be united you still thinking about boundaries created by white peoples!
You are soo stupid how you can steal gorilla imbecile? If i have how i can steal it i will do cause in Rwanda they will be safe because you hunt, kill and eating them!
@PT Nsaka stop talking stupidity you have ideology of separation! We are not far to DRC just try you will see what will happen! Which army you have are capable to attack Rwanda?! Even without international support M23 of thousands soldiers terrorized your corrupted army
@PT Nsaka is not Rwandans killing in congo is Congolese who killed Congolese! I repeat you have to deal with your internal problems is not Rwanda who will come to fix it.
all that m23 wants is their right to citizenship and its all they ever fought for..is that really hard to give…is it too much that they demand ??? the Congolese government under kisekedi is really stupid and foolish
@A Em The only Rwandan soldiers who fled to DRC are The Genocide commiting FAR and interahamwe that later became Allies of DRC called FDLR. Stop your BS
@nyamitari armand you sound like a pure Tutsi
@nyamitari armand Tutsi who fled to the DRC in large numbers are now fighting against the country that gave them refuge, the DRC. Mobutu shouldn’t have allowed them in, see how they’re attacking those who saved them.
@A Em Mobutu was an accomplice to the Genocide committing regime. He even gave refuge and shelter to those criminals who continued to commit those atrocities to tutsis who had fled before.
Mobutu was watching he gave nobody no refuge those are real congolese or as you like eastern congolese by origin.
@nyamitari armand An example of a Tutsi that was given refuge in the DRC is bosco ntaganda. There are many Tutsis who were given refuge in the DRC that arre now biting the hand of the one who fed them.
Rwanda where are they getting the hose weapons that’s the owner of the war
🇰🇪 on our way…..aljazeera correct your news reporting Congo has the military support of Kenya
And its very unfortunate that KE is getting involved. Hivi vita vya Congo ni wahusika tu wanavielewa. Uhuru needs to find other ways to stay relevant. These people from Central Africa are brothers at the end of the day. You dont get involved kwa vita vya mandugu.
@Esther Thea wahusika ni sisi waafrika Wacha kuwa nafikira za ukoloni uhuru is not president of Kenya anymore and there is a reason why we created the East African Community and added DRC,we did not just go to Congo we were invited by the Congolese people …we do not want the involvement of foreign European powers in Africa anymore and when the refugees start flooding in Kenya and other neighbouring countries have to carry that burden…who else knows Congo’s situation more than Kenya, The M24 rebels are remnants of U.S CIA funding to destabilize the region to funnel minerals from the richest African country, even with their connection to Rwanda with Kenya getting involved Rwanda will step back now because nobody wants smoke with Kenya..this is not a fight between brothers these are remnants of Africa’s first World War and it needs all African partners to handle, this divisive thinking of us as separate nations is what leaves us weak from outside attacks we are either one altogether or not, M24 are terrorists and should be dealt as such just like the Al shabaab..if they want peace they should go to the table and have an understanding just like what Kenya did for South Sudan and even recently with Ethiopia
What do you mean by this time they don’t have much help? EAC is intervening and so far Burundi and Kenya have sent troops. Kenyan troops include the elite Ranger Strike Force
@Back Up You are not from Kenya
@Pascal Nyamaswa what rights are u referring to?
@Andy FORT birthright citizenship
@Pascal Nyamaswa It’s clearly more than that they want to administer the land also. Besides, they seem to have allegiance to rwanda rather than to Congo the country they claim to be citizen of. foreigners who acquire citizenship by birth in UK, France, Rwanda and any other country don’t claim any ancestral land in the host country. They have to abide by the constitution of the host nation. Worst of all these guy want to intergrate the nation army, government and public administration in command positions of the host nation and again using guns and violent means. No country including rwanda will ever tolerate such non sense
@Andy FORT 1st. These people were NOT HOSTED,THIS IS THEIR COUNTRY. They were there before whites demarcated african countries. If DRC’s doesn’t want congoleses Kinyarwandaphone then they give them their land.
2nd. You say they have allegiance to Rwanda than Congo – This is one of results of DRC’s hatred towards them.
3rd. It is their right to be in army, administration………
4th. FDLR plays also a big role in this conflict. It is killing these congolese kinyarwandaphone.
This DRC’s politic of hating Rwanda to the extent they chase their citizens out of Congo will never work.
Congolese, stop being kind to the extent of welcoming monster people whom we thoughts they need help by sheltering them but instead they have turned their backs on people who showed them kindness. Instead of repaying us with good deeds but they are not only raping and killing they also want our land🤔
For sure there’s some hands in from a Western country for resources as always.
Western countries like Britain and Israel arm Rwandans who then fund M23.
Western countries not only 1. A bunch of dem actually
Those are tribal wars.Nothing like fighting for natural resources.
I don’t get it.. there are peace talks going on….
Nous condanons energiquement la complicité du soit disant communaute internarionale á sa tête le president Français ennemi déclaré du peuples Africains plus oarticulirièment les Bantous de mart region de grand lacs. Nous démandons nos fŕère Tutsi qui ze sentent encore Africain de demander leur frere Kagame et Museveni de cesse á tue lea Africains au profit des aucidentaux.qu’ils sachent que tôt ou tard ils vont paýé.
Congo has the worst army in Africa
People, why don’t you wake, why is it that you’re too blind to see,don’t you think that teach for touch in a negative way, can lead to less population
M23 ♥️
Sad to see the most resource filled continent in the world suffer like this. Maybe their rich source of minerals and fossil fuel have become a curse to them 🙁
God bless
@georgeogoro both local and western. The western ones are bossing the local ones around
@Child of God I don’t think Congo has more minerals than other countries for everyone to take interest in it. I think the problem is local leadership and greed,, you only need to be allowed to fight until you respect each other and live peacefully…
@georgeogoro less minarals or not , rich or not , no need evidences that this country is fighted by his neighbours at his East side with the support of Western world , if you’re untutored at this point I recommend you to read the mapping report or the United Nations report on the war at the East side of DRC. There’s more evidences that Rwanda and Ouganda are sustaining the rebellious groups at the East of DRC, by providing them in arms that DRC can not offord.
@georgeogoro u must be very ignorant to say that
@Andy FORT that’s the sad reality you need to wake up to sir. It happened in Rwanda and they now respect each other perfectly
May Allah sw give Congo peace, Amiiiin
Amin
*US PROXIES at it again…*
Support from any African country will not solve the problem, they’ll just turn into thieves. The DRC can only solve this problem by fighting the enemy.
For Europe to be rich , Africa has to fight .
African we are fun 🤣
It times for Rwanda and ouganda ppl to stand against they president cuz they are distroying other ppl country to plz they boss forgetting one day they gonna died also
Al Jazeera, those refugees speak Swahili and French. Why don’t you interview them rather than speak over them? You don’t have any reporters on the ground who speak Swahili?
Western influence for natural resources MUST have had a hand in this.
Malcolm web stop double standards.. you’re on ground and your are highly educated and informed to understand what’s exactly is going on around that region..Uganda and Rwanda are just a disguise.. a country where ALL western powers like US UK China EU Russia.. even emerging economies like uae turkey Saudi and so many others piercing their fangs can not be stable especially in times like now when global economy is in turmoil.. So Mr web don’t look stupid on TV reporting nonsense… remember 60+% of people in world knows how wars are fought..these are not colonial tyms…..
Al jarzeera, please remove your dirty nose from our Africa. We will no longer take your evils work. We Africa got Afrique Media. Life has changed. We take our destiny in hand not relie in your lies.
Congolese are a bunch of cowards, that’s what the enemies are capitalizing on! CONGOLESE PEOPLE NEED TO COME OUT AND DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY!
This is too much my african people what went wrong there
stop propagandas, those videos are too old to use now,,,what is said by them is misinterpreted ..so stop Aljazeera in Africa ,,concentrate with your own propagandas elsewhere
THE CONGOLESE ARMY IS LAUGHABLE.
This need to stop, this people have nothing with this conflict, they are not eating diamond, gold or coltan, black people are suffering to much in the hand of their own people and the hand of white government
Oo Afrika, Alkebulan, Drc congo brothers and sisters, stop being duped. Drc congo government please do policies and laws that uplift livelihoods of your people. Don’t accept to be used as tools for your destruction.
Strong determination to support this DRC fighters is important for Lions pride (JWTZ) to take action
This is a trick. M-23 is trying to draw Kenyan Defense Forces to the front line, before the entire contingent is battle ready. There is no rush. When we are ready, we will engage M23. We need to get all our equipment into DRC including our helicopters, and fighter jets. Once everything is in place, then we will engage the Negative Forces.
You’re really good in making useless speeches but you can’t fight for your people and your country’s territorial integrity. Just let M23 take over and bring back security in religion. Where is flight jet you have shown ? 😅😅😅
Ay em so sorry for people from dr congo and there coutry hope thay get better. Ay will always support dr congo from serbia🇷🇸🇷🇸❤️🇨🇩🇨🇩
Thanks
May God bless u🙏
Congo is a failed state (DRC)
Ukraine v Russia now the attention is moving to congo
see what’s up:
when Europe were dividing africa in 1885, they have drawn boundaries without considering anything about the people in those areas, then there is a part of Rwanda which was added to congo, that part had Rwandans living there natively but by that time they were added to congo , which means their nationality changed to congolese but their culture and language they spoke did not change, and many of them were Tutsis,
now what is happening is , congo says , since we have people who hate Tutsi on our land, and we don’t need those Tutsi to stay on our land too, we are going to partner with them , even if their are criminals , but their hate for tutsi will be an advantage for us to hit M23,,
and Rwanda says, we’re not happy with discriminated Kinyarwanda speaking people in Congo, and we can not allow FDLR to come any close to our territories since their goal is to destabilize our country, so Rwanda can do anything to make sure, that it’s security is stable.
U can blame Europe for the next centuries, even without them Africa never developed in the recent decades, Europe at least paid repetitions unlike other colonial empires like the Turkish.
Congolese are always fleeing for their lives. Herded around like cattle by armed gangs of savages fighting for nothing. What a sad existence that must be.
M23 is Ugandan and Rwandan trying to control DRC, please guy don’t run stay in your places, the world is watching those dictators.
Hoo my God have mercy
RDC is largely Country their government don’t how to defend their Territory! M23 is Tutsi originated from Rwanda but live in That territory before country called RDC(zaire) exists like 400years! Conference of Berlin 1884 separated Africa and created countries based on their own Interest! The Rwandese Tutsi founded themselves to the side of Congo Belge(DRC of Today). These are the consequences of Berlin conference.
If they need definitive solutions Congo must be divided like Sudan. This will be easily to Control and maintain security! That is my opinion.
That’s not the problem.. that won’t solve anything but create chaos.. due to that tutsi live on other peoples territories.. if you divide the country which territories would be given to them.. to which it’s won’t upset the other tribes who dwell within the Sam territories? Tutsi are the minority in Congo only comparing 0.04% of the population.. the solution is for the DRC government to create credible institutions.. to defend its citizens and territorial integrity.
In the abundance of water the fool is thirsty… Why fight ourselves while we can cooperate with each other for the betterment of our lives…
This is unfortunate has Africa
i would love to see the studies from their MRIs overtime with their culture. just speaking from medical professional standpoint, i really do wonder what changes happen in their spines from carrying things like this throughout their lives. just super curious. 🙂
You are a wicked person. The world is in trouble with people like you. Heartless creature.
What 😂😂😂
Everyone is struggling to get a piece of Congo, including the regional leaders from Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.
Please don’t include Kenya
kenya cant get a piece in congo
kenya has nthing to do with congo my frend
Cheap thinking
It seems like Kagame’s end goal is to annex parts of Goma
Kagame is an NWO agent.
Coltan is the material found in Congo and without that no cell phones, no computers, and no nothing. Congo can rule the world.
Except Congo doesn’t make cell phones or computers and doesn’t refine Coltan into tantalite powder
And columbite isn’t only found in the Congo.
It was discovered in America in the 17th century which is why it’s called columbite and it’s mined in the USA Brazil Columbia and Australia not just the Congo
Kagame leave my people in peace, you have done a lot already. ehhh!!!
all those countries going to congo in the name of peace keeping are all criminals..
FARDC never defeated M23. FARDC should be on M23 side to chase FDRL out of their country and enjoy peace
This problem is purely caused by the West for resources. Rwanda and all others are jus a smokescreen.
Ye we’ll just pretend that china hasn’t been buying up all the mines in the DRC and have so far bought 17 of them from American and European companies
I wish I can get more credible news like this. “ group of soldiers have panicked “😂😂😂😂
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Wooiyie mungu wangu jameni, Hurumia watu wako
Museveni nd Kagame are the problem to East nd Central African countries
The United nations would rather increase contingents of security instead of listening to people’s voice and why they are fighting back, the country has been marginalized to a point UN have their own airport to carry the minerals which doesn’t benefit locals
Some of agents entering this shade deals are their politicians …. it benefits a few …big fish
Very sorry but, the government of the Drc Congo right from the mobutu regime has been so absent-minded administratively. So, let the rwandese teach them by invading them and taking part of their country. And of course they will take it.!!!
Stop the fake news
🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩DRC will VISIT RWANDA AND FINISH THEM UP
😂😂😂😂😂😂 so what are waiting for?
Who funds the so called rebels to kill their own people? America and the UK
No they aren’t.
Russia and China are the biggest arms suppliers to Africa and the UN has consistently accused Rwanda of funding M23
Chinese-made weapons and military equipment are in wide use by the Congolese rebel group M23 and other factions battling in the eastern DRC, according to an investigation by the DRC news publication Politico
“M23 weapons seized by the FARDC (the Congolese military) are almost all Chinese-made,” defense analyst Jean-Jacques Wondo Omanyundu told the news outlet.
In 2017 Rwanda revealed its purchases of powerful Chinese weaponry after the equipment was used in an army training exercise
Is this the way African countries are going to be United, by invading weaker neighbouring countries aggressively. Mr musevenl…
Congo does not Belong to Congolese the earlier they understand it the quicker they will jave peace
So basically,,KDF is coming to fight Kagame in DRC…All these countries in the EAF,,,This federation is doomed before it even begins🥺
Lets unite the congo 🇨🇩 and get rid of everyone not belong to that ground! Hand out guns to the people and fight back till the last acre is in our hands again!
M23 ❤️✊🏽🇨🇩
The Globa powers are pumping money into Kigali so they can fund M23 terrorists,they loot minerals and transport them to Kigali and off to the Global north,Kagame is a Western agent.
What is the enemy thinking making all this people homeless MAY GOD GIVE JUSTICE my goodness where is humanity,mercy !?
WE KNOW THEY WANT THE MINERALS FOR THEIR CHILDREN IN THOSE OTHER CONTINENTS…
Long Live M23…..Viva the great commander Gen Sultan Makenga
Rwanda is the reason of the multiple crisis in the drc ,Kagame is stealing the drc ressources plain and simple
Superpowers behind all of this for decades, so how can people defeat such colonialism, imperialism whatever. Is it because they were never meant to consisering the money & weapons being forced in there in a search for resources not belonging to such warmongers.
Let westerners leave Africans alone, they’re people that creating this Terrorist by their foreign soldiers whites and the white soldiers by France 🇫🇷, UK 🇬🇧, USA 🇺🇸 and her alliance westerners are killing Africans because of Africans resources. When they shots the will come out and says its rebels from Africa. All Africans should know that who are killing them mainly are those countries I mentioned above. Let’s all countries in Africa investigate well and you all are going to see that westerners are the key pilots of the terrorists in Africa.
Their is no way what so ever excuse one can give.
To say that rebels can not put to sleep.
The question is what are our leaders doing in african union.
Of all Africans..DRC people have never known peace…
I remember when I was young same things happened we had to move to Zambia …it’s so sad seeing this again
Are you Zambian citizen right Now?
@Jeremy Makokha I’m not in Africa God helped me moved me USA …like 4 years ago
Our Bantu people are suffering do much cuz of their wealthy land
Putin will take them in and send them to the front line to fight for Russia
Even west side Europe people always think they really know human rights than the owner.
You don’t know anything, you very wrong .
Finally it’s you the reason to all this things.
This is so painful to watch
Telling someone of rwandese origin born in Congo to leave is a big issue .Denying them opportunists is another issue .it’s a complex situation
They are foreigners in congo, what special privilege do foreigners enjoy abroad more than the citizen. If even among true citizens non enjoys special privilege more than the other citizens.
For how long will these people live like this. Lord have mercy.
And yet you have a population churning out babies in all this chaos?
God have mercy t my beautiful country
Once again thank the west
It’s not ” fashionable ” for countries to assist those in Africa …..geddit….
So create civil unrest……then LIBERATE THEM from themselves……..this is comical
This war is being sponsored by the USA
Is it really. M23 or the West fallen angels waging war against real people of the garden of Eden?
Western like to ignate the fire and then go assist with their journalists, looking like they are commenting a football game. France wants and assists Kagame to take Goma and give it to the rebels. We see the game here.
M23 REBELS ARE NOT CONGOLESE. THEY ARE TUSTSI FROM RWANDA WHOM PAUL KAGAME IS TRYING TO USE AS MADE UP REBELION TO MOUNT A PROXY WAR AGAINST THE GOVERNEMENT OF CONGO WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER ARMS AMBARGO WITH BIAIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. KAGAME IS JUST A HUNTING DOG BEING USED BY THE WEST AND THAT’S WHY THE ARMY OF DRC IS UNABLE TO CRASH THEM. CONGO HAS MORE THAN 385 TRIBES N NONE OF THEM HAS SPECIAL PREVILEGES MORE THAN THE OTHERS. IF THE M23 REBELS CLAIM TO BE CONGOLESE, THEN CAN THEY SAY IT LOUDLY SO THAT THE WHOLE WORLD COULD HEAR, WHAT SPECIAL RIGHTS PROVIDED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF CONGO TO WHICH ALL CONGOLESE ARE SUBJECT AND THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING GIVEN EITHER FAIRLY OR EQUALLY JUST LIKE ANY OF THE OTHER 385 TRIBES OF CONGO TOWHICH THEY CLAIM TO BE PART? THIS IS A PURE NONSENSE WITH NO BASEMENT NO WONDER IT LACK POPULAR SUPPORT SINCE IT IS A CRISIS THAT WAS ARTIFICIALLY FABRICATED ABROAD ! GOD WILL SURELY PUNISH YOU SEVERELY FOR THE BLOOD INNOCENT CONGOLESE PEOPLE YOU SHEDDING DAILY!
Kagame like M7 the hate non tutsi and kill with a passion
C triste 😢