Posted on 01/28/2025 6:59:03 AM PST by EBH
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Dead bodies lay in the streets, gunfire rang out and hospitals were overwhelmed in east Congo's largest city Goma where M23 rebels backed by Rwanda faced pockets of resistance on Tuesday from army and pro-government militias.
A day after the rebels marched into the lakeside city, protesters in the capital attacked a U.N. compound and embassies including those of Rwanda, France and the United States, expressing anger at what they said was foreign interference.
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What did he do now?
Now we know what Victoria has been up to.
Africa wins again.
Tribal members being tribal.
You knew the Congo was way too quiet.
They’ve had tribal wars forever but junior probably went there to make a mineral wealth deal.
There’s been trouble in the Congo since I was born. Tribes war on each other. Its a thing. Its never going to stop. We just need to leave them all alone as they kill each other with great abandonment.
“Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo!”
Yup. Even mercenary’s won’t work there anymore.
A long history of tribal/political blood letting in
the Congo w/many players/countries involved:
https://worldhistoryedu.com/congo-crisis-of-1960-1965-history-causes-effects/
I wonder if there are some old CIA files on what really happened to Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane? ;^)
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