Goma under the M23: BBC visits DR Congo city under rebel control

More than 700 people died as fighters from the M23 group captured the eastern city of Goma.

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Goma residents filled the streets a few miles from the border with Rwanda - commuters headed to work, hawkers sold goods by the roadside and taxi drivers scrambled to win customers.

But it only took a few minutes to notice there was a new "government" in town.

As I reached a checkpoint near a police post formerly run by the Congolese authorities, gun-toting fighters from the M23 rebel group stopped my car.

Last week M23 had captured Goma, an eastern city of nearly two million people, after a lightning advance in DR Congo's eastern region.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2yxw11zlgo

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