Tag: Goma
MSF warns of increase in gunshot wounds around Goma
A worrying increase in gunshot wounds was recorded around Goma, the capital of North Kivu and in the hinterland, during the months of October and November 2023. Médecins sans Frontières…
DRC: Moïse Katumbi, first candidate to campaign in Goma in a destabilized region
In the east of the DRC, the city of Goma received the first candidate in the running for the presidential election on December 20. The former governor of Katanga, Moise…
Elections in the DRC: the campaign hardly starts in Goma, a strategic city
While the electoral campaign began on November 19 across the entire territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), no candidate launched their campaign or held a meeting in the…
DRC: since the resumption of fighting in the East, displaced people arrive every day towards Goma
Just outside Goma, one of the largest cities in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the camps for displaced people have been saturated since almost the start…
four officers sentenced following the violent repression of a demonstration in Goma
On October 2, 2023, an officer was sentenced to death – a sentence commuted to life imprisonment in the DRC – and three other soldiers to 10 years in prison…
DRC: third day of the trial of the soldiers prosecuted after the demonstrations of August 30 in Goma
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it was, yesterday Thursday, September 6, the third day of the trial of six soldiers of the Republican Guard (GR), including two senior…
appearance of 140 members of a mystical-religious sect before the military prosecutor’s office in Goma
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 140 people appear before the military prosecutor’s office of the Goma garrison, in North Kivu. These people are mostly followers of a mystical-religious sect…
DRC: heavy toll in Goma after the repression of a demonstration
In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Goma, according to sources contacted by RFI, at least forty people were killed and many others injured, in the repression…
DRC: at least ten dead on the sidelines of a demonstration against Monusco in Goma
At least ten people were killed this Wednesday, August 30 in the morning on the sidelines of a demonstration in Goma, in the east of the DRC. The demonstrators, belonging…
DRC: in Goma, the M23 war has a heavy socio-economic impact
The M23 war in the DRC is undermining the shopping basket of Goma, in North Kivu. While Kinshasa continues to accuse Kigali of supporting this rebellion, several inhabitants of Goma…