Congo | Goma Hospitals Swamped With Casualties, Food And Low Water As M-23 Rebels Take Over | N18G

Hospitals in Goma, the city at the epicentre of the M23 rebel advance in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are being flooded with casualties. Health facilities and workers have been targeted in attacks. Humanitarian food stores are being looted. Women are at increased risk of rape, and the safe evacuation of wounded has been impeded by the closure of Goma airport, said the World Health Organization and other UN bodies at a joint press briefing Friday on the worsening crisis in the DRC.Show more