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UN Security Council Sanctions 6 Leaders in DR Congo

While the M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, and the DR Congo troops continue battlling over the strategic town of Sake, which is on the way to Goma, refugee camps and hospitals are overloaded with civilians fleeing the shelling homes in North Kivu province. The Rwanda and DR Congo governments are accusing each other of abandoning the Luanda and Nairobi peace processes, 

The U.S. has condemned the "worsening violence caused by the actions of the Rwanda-backed, U.S.- and UN-sanctioned M23 armed group, including its recent incursions into the town of Sake", calling on M23 to "immediately cease hostilities and withdraw from its current positions around Sake and Goma".

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A family displaced by fighting in DR Congo are reunited in Goma (file photo).

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