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RWANDA-backed militia controlling cities in eastern Congo have forcibly closed settlement camps, leading to the displacement of more than 110,000 people in recent days, the United Nations and locals said on Tuesday.
The M23 militia — the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of Congo’s mineral-rich east — captured Goma, the region’s largest city, in late January in a major escalation of the years-long conflict with government forces.
The rebels’ advance into Goma has killed at least 2,000 people in and around the city, Congolese authorities said.
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