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The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to pause its operations in Goma and the wider North Kivu region, the agency has said.

In a statement on social media platform X, the WFP said it had made the move due to the "escalation in violence".

It added that 800,000 people in North Kivu "rely on vital food and nutrition assistance".

The WFP will restart its operations when the situation is safe for its "communities" and staff, the statement said.

WFP operations in the rest of DR Congo will continue uninterrupted.

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The M23 are led by ethnic Tutsis, who say they needed to take up arms to protect the rights of the minority group.

They say that several previous deals to end the fighting have not been respected - they take their name from a peace agreement that was signed on March 23 2009.

Shortly after its creation in 2012, the M23 rapidly gained territory and seized Goma – acts that were met with international opprobrium and accusations of war crimes and human rights violations.

It was forced to withdraw from Goma, and then suffered a series of heavy defeats at the hands of the Congolese army backed by a multinational force that saw it expelled from the country.

M23 fighters then agreed to be integrated into the army in return for promises that Tutsis would be protected.

But, in 2021, the group took up arms again, saying the promises had been broken.

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