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UN staff to leave DR Congo's Goma

Published January 27th, 2025 - 07:06 GMT
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War-displaced women express their needs to a UN staff member in the courtyard of an elementary school where they have taken refuge in Minova, South Kivu province, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 9, 2024. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP)

ALBAWABA - United Nations staff and their families will be leaving Goma city over the Rwandan border as buses are ready to transfer them, AFP reported Monday citing Rwanda's state media.

"This Monday morning UN staff and their families who worked in DRC" are being evacuated from Goma, with buses at the border "on standby to ferry them to Kigali, where they will board flights to their respective countries," the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency said on X.

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