(27 Feb 2025)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS IMAGES OF INJURED PEOPLE++
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Bukavu, Democratic Republic Congo – 27 February 2025
1. View of Bukavu’s independence square after explosions hit an M23 rally
2. People carrying injured people on motorbikes
3. Ambulance speeding past Bukavu’s general hospital
4. People carrying an injured person
5. People carrying injured people on motorbikes
9. Man carrying an injured person into Bukavu’s general hospital
10. Healthcare workers at Bukavu’s general hospital receiving injured people
11. Wide view of the crowd at the rally before the explosions
12. Various of Willy Ngoma, an M23 leader, in the crowd as people cheer
13. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Corneille Nangaa, rebel leader:
“Congo River Alliance, the key word that we bring is change. The key word that we bring is development.”
14. Ngoma walking in the crowd as people cheer
15. Various of Bukavu’s independence square after explosions hit an M23 rally
STORYLINE:
Dozens of people were reportedly injured Thursday after two explosions hit a meeting of M23 rebel group leaders and residents in the captured city of Bukavu in eastern Congo.
People scrambled to load the wounded onto motorbikes Thursday morning and take them to hospital in the wake of the blasts.
Leaders of the M23 rebel group were meeting residents when the explosions occurred in the central part of Bukavu.
Among the rebel leaders present was Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes the M23.
The leaders, including Nangaa, were leaving the podium when two blasts rocked the scene, according to a journalist present at the meeting.
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have swept through the region seizing key cities and killing some 3,000 people.
In a lightning three-week offensive, the M23 took control of eastern Congo’s main city Goma and seized the second largest city, Bukavu.
The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, and at times have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away.
Rwanda has accused Congo of enlisting ethnic Hutu fighters responsible for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
M23 says it’s fighting to protect Tutsis and Congolese of Rwandan origin from discrimination and wants to transform Congo from a failed state to a modern one.
Analysts have called those pretexts for Rwanda’s involvement.
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