Streets were deserted, businesses closed and troops fled the eastern Congolese city of Uvira on Wednesday, a day after a Rwanda-backed rebel group reached the cityβs outskirts, prompting Burundi to seal its frontier, in the biggest escalation in months of the long-running war.
The M23's assault comes less than a year after the anti-government armed group seized control of Goma and Bukavu, two key provincial capitals in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been plagued by conflict for three decades.
Its latest rapid advance, launched on Dec.
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