Sentence examples for goma from inspiring English sources

Even with an ICC indictment hanging over his head, the general freely walks around Goma.

Ndiaga Seck, associate information officer with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in the North Kivu provincial capital of Goma, said LRA attacks have decreased since December's massacre in Makombo, but people were still living with host families, unwilling to return home.

At dawn yesterday there was the heaviest fighting yet in the east of Congo as Mr Kabila's irregular forces - many of them Rwandans who took part in the genocide of 1994 - attacked the rebels in Goma, their headquarters town.

He is currently based in Goma.

A more concerted approach to eastern Congo emerged last November when the M23 routed the Congolese army and overran the UN force to capture Goma.

A furious Mr Kagame denied the UN accusations and smeared the report's authors but eventually felt obliged to negotiate.Since December, when the M23 withdrew from the strategic trading hub of Goma in North Kivu, two sets of negotiations have simultaneously taken place.

Goma has no potable water, and little food or shelter.

A showdown is expected around Goma (see map).Many Tutsis in Congo would like to try to get along with their fellow Congolese.