Calm gradually returns to Kibumba, a town 20 km north of the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a week of intense fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels. Rwandan soldiers came with trucks and looted several houses including mine," a local said. I fled the war in Kibumba but when I arrived in the camp, it was famine that is close to killing me now. The Congolese army was deployed after pushing back the rebels. On the RN2 that links Goma to the "great north" of the province, soldiers are present in large numbers, patrolling on foot and in vehicles.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 02, 2022 21:08 UTC