Congo requests emergency session of UN Human Rights Council on Goma


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  • Tuesday, 04 Feb 2025

FILE PHOTO: View of the Mugunga camps as some displaced people return home, days after the M23 rebel group seized the town of Goma, near Goma, in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, February 3, 2025. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to discuss the situation in the eastern city of Goma after it was seized by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, a U.N. spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Congo requested the session, which is still subject to approval, to take place on Feb. 7 in Geneva.

(Reporting by Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin; Editing by Madeline Chambers)

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