Mass burials in Goma as families demand peace amid conflict

Red Cross workers in Goma continued mass burials on Tuesday, a week after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized control of the city. The Congolese interior minister, Jacquemin Shabani, stated that 2,000 bodies had been buried, while the WHO revised the official death toll to at least 900, excluding those still in morgues.

Families of the victims expressed deep grief and urged authorities to restore peace.

“We lost three people—some from a…