During the past few weeks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lengthy conflict has been condensed into a series of violent episodes that will determine the country’s future. On January 27, a rebel movement known as the March 23 Movement, or M23, wrested Goma, a city of 2 million people, from Congolese government control. In the subsequent days, the M23 and a connected rebel…

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