(13 Jun 2025)
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Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – 13 June 2025
1. Various of UN mission head Bintou Keita arriving at the Serena Hotel in Goma
2. Corneille Nangaa Yubeluo, leader of the Congo River Alliance that includes M23, walking to the meeting room at the Serena Hotel
3. Various of M23 leaders and MONUSCO (the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) officials in meeting room
4. Various of Keita and Corneille Nangaa entering news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Bintou Keita, MONUSCO head: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“MONUSCO remains committed to supporting all initiatives that can help de-escalate tensions. The leaders of the AFC/M23 expressed their willingness to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. MONUSCO is also ready to provide the necessary support to all ongoing peace initiatives."
6. Various of Goma streets
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Abiba Kasole, Goma resident:
"She’s (Bintou Keita) here to carry out interventions where insecurity reigns in the country, and that’s why, in my opinion, her presence in the city of Goma will change many things."
8. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Muguiko David, Goma resident:
"What we think of MONUSCO, since it has been here with us, is that we live a miserable life, because they say they are here to help bring peace, and the peace they’re supposed to bring—we don’t see it. Even the head who has come, yes, we heard about it, but we don’t know the reason for her visit."
9. Various of streets of Goma
STORYLINE:
The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, in her visit to the eastern city of Goma since its capture by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
“The leaders of the AFC/M23 expressed their willingness to find a peaceful solution to the crisis,” said Bintou Keita, head of the mission known as MONUSCO following a meeting with Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance, or AFC, that includes M23.
The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province, followed by Bukavu in February.
Despite Congo’s army and M23 having agreed to work toward a truce in April, fighting between the two sides continues.
The MONUSCO force arrived in Congo in 2010 after taking over from an earlier U.N. peacekeeping mission to protect civilians and humanitarian personnel and to support the Congolese government in its stabilization and peace consolidation efforts.
"The peace they’re supposed to bring—we don’t see it," said Goma resident Muguiko David as frustrated Congolese have said that no one is protecting them from rebel attacks.
This has led protests against the U.N. mission and others that have at times turned deadly.
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