UN: Deaths near 3,000 in fighting for DRC's Goma

Members of the Congolese Red Cross stand amid bodies in body bags at the morgue of Goma General Hospital on Feb. 1, 2025. The cities of Goma and Bukavu sit across DRC's eastern border with Rwanda.

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a fighting between M23 militants and the national army over control of a key eastern city.