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Two boys rest in a church where more than 200 war-displaced families have taken refuge in Minova, South Kivu province, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 10, 2024. In early February, M23 rebels, backed by the Rwandan army, took control of the road linking Goma, capital of North Kivu, to Minova and Bukavu, causing the Congolese army to flee to Minova as well as tens of thousands of civilians. The only remaining access route to Minova is via Lake Kivu. Humanitarian aid for the nearly 300,000 displaced people in Minova is almost inexistent. In Eastern DRC, over 1.5 million people are displaced by the advance of the M23, which took up arms again at the end of 2021. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)