‘Wanton’ Rape and Murder and Risk of Regional War Leave Trump Administration Facing ‘Serious Problem’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The escalating and bloody uprising pits the government-backed military against a Rwanda-backed militia group, M23.

AP/Janvier Barhahiga
M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province administrative office, February 16, 2025. AP/Janvier Barhahiga

Grainy video footage, shot from above barbed-wire fencing, captures the frightening chaos — figures scrambling in the gloom, smoke billowing into the overcast sky. Behind the haze and destruction lies an atrocity of staggering brutality. 

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