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I've been in Goma, a city on the border with Rwanda, since early last week.
Emmett Livingstone writes about Africa and is in Goma at the moment.
Internet connection there is very poor, but he's been able to send us occasional dispatches.
Over the time that I've been here, I've watched as M23 rebels and Rwandan troops advanced from about 15 miles west of the city.
For two years, the city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been almost completely encircled by a military group known as the March 23rd Movement, or M23.
At the weekend, the forces keeping the M23 rebels out of Goma collapsed.
Fighting continued and this weekend the attackers pushed from the north and overran government positions.
Goma is the largest city in the east of the Congo.