Life in Goma After a Rebel Takeover

Life in Goma After a Rebel Takeover

After a week of fighting, rebels backed by Rwanda have wrested almost full control over Goma, a city of two million in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Hospitals are overflowing with the wounded, and the city morgue with the dead. Goma’s residents are beginning to emerge from their hiding places, desperately searching for water…

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Life in Goma After a Rebel Takeover

Life After a Rebel Takeover

After a week of fighting, rebels backed by Rwanda have wrested almost full control over Goma, a city of two million in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Hospitals are overflowing with the wounded, and the city morgue with the dead. Goma’s residents are beginning to emerge from their hiding places, desperately searching for water…

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Antony Blinken pushes for Ukraine support in last NATO trip before Trump takeover

Antony Blinken pushes for Ukraine support in last NATO trip before Trump takeover

Antony Blinken, America’s French-speaking, Europhile top diplomat, paid his last visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday on a bittersweet trip ahead of Donald Trump taking over in the United States. The US Secretary of State can look back on a tenure spent strengthening Washington’s transatlantic bond as Russia launched the largest conflict in…

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