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Residents of Bambo in Rutshuru territory, 60 kilometers north of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, flee as the M23 attacked the town on October 26, 2023. Around noon, M23 rebels, supported by the Rwandan army according to the UN, the USA and the European Union, attacked the town of Bambo with mortars, causing several thousand inhabitants to flee. Hundreds of Congolese soldiers, police officers and proxy militiamen were seen joining the population as they tried to escape the fighting. Several civilians were killed and wounded in the fighting, according to medical sources on the spot. The M23 has captured swathes of territory in North Kivu province since 2021, forcing more than a million people to flee. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)