GOMA, Congo — Fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 rebel group intensified in eastern Congo in recent days ahead of much anticipated peace talks on Sunday, the army said. Congo’s army accused the M23 of killing 12 civilians earlier this week in villages of the Lubero territory in the eastern province of North-Kivu in a statement on Friday. …
Conflict and insecurity have dominated campaign discourse in the DRC and could stop displaced people from voting. “Now, we are starving.” Al Jazeera could not independently verify this incident, but it is consistent with reports of ongoing violence in Congo’s besieged east, and within Virunga National Park itself. Onesphore Sematumba, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, said the government, …
