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Explainer: What’s Behind the Rising Conflict in Eastern DRC?

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Explainer: What’s Behind the Rising Conflict in Eastern DRC?

Evarist Chahali
Jul 26, 2022
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Explainer: What’s Behind the Rising Conflict in Eastern DRC?

When the gunshots rang out, Dansira Karikumutima jumped to her feet.

“I ran away with my family,” she said of the March day that M23 rebels arrived in Cheya, her village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. “We scattered, each running in a different direction out of fear.”

Months later, the 52-year-old, her husband and their 11 c…

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