(26 Jan 2025)
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Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – 26 January 2025
1. Local resident Chibalonza Habimana buying bread
2. Tracking of Habimana and her son walking
3. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Chibalonza Habimana, local resident:
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“We haven’t slept for three days, we don’t go out, we don’t do anything, we hear bombs exploding day and night. We see people trying to flee but we will not flee because we have nowhere to go.”
4. Tilt-up of Habimana and son washing hands
5. Mid of Habimana feeding sons
6. Close of Habimana
7. Mid of local resident Bahati Jackson
8. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Bahati Jackson, local resident:
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“Sitting here, I can hear the sound of bombs, the crackle of falling bullets. We decided to stay at home because as long as there are wars, those who flee the war can also die or live a bad life.”
9. Various of city
STORYLINE:
Goma resident Chibalonza Habimana is aware of the war at the gateway to her home city and the threat posed by the M23 rebels’ offensive but unlike thousands of Goma’s residents who have abandoned their homes and fled the city, she and her husband have decided to stay at home with their four children “because we have nowhere else to go."
When the M23 rebels took control of Goma in 2012, Habimana fled the city.
She still has bad memories of that time, as she lost many of her belongings, and she does not want to go through the same experience again, despite the sound of bombs and bullets falling next to her town.
Now, Habimana sells clothes at a shop at the Virunga market, the main market of Goma, but with the fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels around the city, her economic activities have come to an abrupt halt.
Her four children can no longer go to school, and her husband, Bahati Jackson, 39, keeps her company in these difficult times.
The M23 rebel group has made significant territorial gains along the border with Rwanda in recent weeks, closing in on Goma, the provincial capital of around two million people and a regional hub for security and humanitarian efforts.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United States and U.N. experts accuse Rwanda of backing M23, which is mainly made up of ethnic Tutsis who broke away from the Congolese army more than a decade ago.
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