DR Congo: Missionary describes chaos in Goma, with ‘many dead and refugee camps under attack’

(Aid to the Church in Need) — Two weeks after the M23 armed group attacked the city of Goma, there is still fighting in the province of North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, worsening humanitarian conditions in the region. A missionary in the country tells ACN that over 2,000 people have been killed, and that hospitals are overrun with the wounded. Even refugee camps have been attacked.

The province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a terrible humanitarian crisis, two weeks after the M23 rebel group, which is supported by Rwanda, occupied the provincial capital of Goma.

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