{"id":3469,"date":"2025-02-02T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/life-in-goma-after-a-rebel-takeover\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T08:15:10","slug":"life-in-goma-after-a-rebel-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/life-in-goma-after-a-rebel-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Goma After a Rebel Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After a week of fighting, rebels backed by Rwanda have wrested almost full control over Goma, a city of two million in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hospitals are overflowing with the wounded, and the city morgue with the dead. Goma\u2019s residents are beginning to emerge from their hiding places, desperately searching for water and food. And the Congolese military that was supposed to protect them has been vanquished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, in a yard outside Goma\u2019s biggest stadium, rebels with the Rwanda-backed M23 militia loaded more than 1,000 soldiers they had captured into truck beds, where the men stood packed together. Most wore the uniforms they were captured in. Many of them were furious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the curses they spat were not directed at their captors; rather, at Felix Tshisekedi, the Congolese president, whom they accused of selling them out, and at the military commanders who had abandoned them. Their commanders, together with government officials, had left behind their vehicles, seen in videos and photographs, and boarded boats in the early hours of Monday morning as M23 arrived in the city, escaping across a moonlit lake while leaving their men to fight alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many of the soldiers in the trucks had fought on, alongside armed groups known locally as the Wazalendo. But no reinforcements had been sent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTshisekedi will pay for this,\u201d one soldier shouted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ll capture him with our own hands,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGod will pay him back,\u201d yelled another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A commander of the 231st infantry battalion of the Congolese Army \u2014 known by its French acronym, F.A.R.D.C. \u2014 climbed down from the cabin of one of the trucks, where his seniority had earned him a comfortable spot. The captured commander, Lt. Col. John Asegi, explained that they had no choice but to surrender. M23 was taking them somewhere to give them some training, he said, adding that they would now do whatever their new masters commanded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf we are sent to fight the F.A.R.D.C.,\u201d he said, \u201cwe will fight the F.A.R.D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the M23 rebels strode around the yard preparing for the trucks\u2019 departure, they looked more like an army with their rocket-propelled grenades, fatigues and helmets, while the Congolese soldiers looked like a tired, ragtag rebel group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The rebels, who already control vast tracts of mineral-rich Congo, have said they plan to march to the capital, Kinshasa, nearly a thousand miles to the west, and take over the whole country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The rebels had already handed over to Rwanda hundreds of captured Romanian mercenaries who had been fighting alongside Congolese forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hundreds of civilians stood around the trucks full of soldiers, watching this reversal of roles, and getting a good look at the men who were now in charge. A dozen women and children were crying inconsolably, having just spotted their husbands and fathers among the men in the trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know where they\u2019re taking him to,\u201d wept Marie Sifa, who had a baby girl on her back and three other children in tow. She was from Fizi, 270 miles south of Goma, she said, and she lost everything in the attack on Minova last week. They sought shelter in a school, but they could not stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have been chased out of the school,\u201d Ms. Sifa said, crying as if she were in mourning. \u201cHow will I survive? How will I get these children back to Fizi?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Later on Thursday, a rebel leader, Corneille Nangaa, gave Goma\u2019s citizens a taste of their new reality under the powerful militia \u2014 which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/africacenter.org\/spotlight\/risk-of-regional-conflict-following-fall-of-goma-and-m23-offensive-in-the-drc\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">some experts say<\/a> counts 6,000 troops in eastern Congo, backed by up to 4,000 Rwandan troops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGo back to normal activities,\u201d Mr. Nangaa told Goma\u2019s residents at a two-hour news conference at a local hotel. He was flanked by men in helmets and battle gear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the situation in Goma, a city built around black lava streams from a nearby live volcano, is far from normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dead bodies lie in the streets. Stores, supermarkets, and humanitarian agencies\u2019 warehouses have been looted. Cholera is breaking out. People with bullet wounds \u2014 those who survived \u2014 are finally managing to get to clinics for treatment, only to find a lack of medicine and of surgical staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And many families who were split up as they fled have yet to find each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elys\u00e9e Mopanda lost track of her two children in the chaos. The rebels were holding her husband, a soldier, prisoner. The events of the past week had left her family in ruins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know where to go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Wounded, harrowed, hungry, thirsty or lost, many of Goma\u2019s residents are in an extremely precarious situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most vulnerable is Goma\u2019s displaced population, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For more than a year, people have fled the rebel advance through eastern Congo\u2019s countryside and small towns, seeking refuge in and around Goma, in sprawling, unsanitary camps that are particularly dangerous for women and girls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As M23 closed in on these camps last week, thousands of people who had been barely surviving there fled the clashes, carrying the little they had on their heads toward Goma, which would itself soon be overtaken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Three families who fled one of the camps just outside Goma hid in an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/yoleafrica.org\/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaAQQfhEr7NcWmAEtxH9PAS6A3Bo942NJrbLXuTKE75ajgz6qSp-N136qg_aem_47Wa7gbUrHL4lqtmbb7usA\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">educational center<\/a>, surviving on some beans and rice they were given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Without that kindness, \u201cI don\u2019t know how we would have survived,\u201d said Furaha Kabasele, a 34-year-old mother whose youngest child is only 5 months old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They did survive this perilous week. But they have no idea what they will do now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many, the most pressing need is water. The city\u2019s water supply, as well as its power and internet, was cut during the battle for Goma, and those who had managed to save some watched it dwindle over the week. Those who had no water tried to beg it from those who did, or paid a hawker as much as $5.20 for a jerrycan that usually costs 20 cents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the fighting subsided, hundreds of people have ventured to the edge of Lake Kivu to collect water, adding a little chlorine to try to keep waterborne diseases at bay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of those fetching water on Thursday morning was Tailor Mukendi, 13, who carried two stained yellow jerrycans to the lakeshore, took off his flip-flops, and plunged into the shimmering lake. As the fighting blazed, his family had run out of water to drink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe couldn\u2019t leave the house because of the gunshots and the bombs falling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He filled the cans, and struggled to lug them out of the lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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