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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors with "In the news"

• In an ongoing offensive, the Rwandan-supported March 23 Movement captures Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The primary article, Battle of Goma (2025), says "On January 27, M23 claimed the capture of the city. However, fighting seemed to have continued in several parts ... The government claimed later that morning that its troops are still holding the Goma International Airport and other key points in the city." The number of troops seems quite small for a large city -- about a thousand -- and so claims of capture and control seem contentious. As this war has been ongoing for years, we should expect the fighting to continue.

For a fresh report on the current situation, see Have rebels taken control of Congolese city? which is dated two hours ago and doesn't provide a clear answer. I notice it explains that M23 captured Goma before but were pushed out again and so this place has a history of being contested. Andrew🐉(talk) 12:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

The situation does appear to be in flux. Western media have confirmed that M23 control the city centre [1] [2], and this afternoon there are multiple reports that the government troops at the airport have surrendered [3] [4]. So while it's possible that M23 doesn't control all of the city, it does seem to be in control of most of it, including the most strategically important parts (main roads, city centre, port, airport). I don't think the ITN blurb could explain all those nuances, we're better off leaving them to the article to sort out. Modest Genius ^talk 16:18, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

No, Western media have not confirmed this. The first source above was written in Nairobi and talks of a rebel claim. The second source was written by someone on the Rwandan side of the border and cites a phone call to someone "cooped up in his home". There certainly seems to be ongoing chaos and fighting but it still seems to be a war zone rather than consolidated and uncontested control.

What interesting from these reports is that the city is right on the border with Rwanda and there's twin city of Gisenyi on the Rwandan side of the border. There are lots of Hutu refugees displaced from Rwanda there and Rwanda seems quite involved in this for this reason. Because of this, the place has a long history as a hot spot and this is a continuation of the conflict.

Andrew🐉(talk) 17:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

It's worth noting that the BBC, Reuters, and CNN reported that "Congolese security sources" and French intelligence have said that the airport has been captured by M23. The BBC reported that 1,200+ soldiers surrendered at the airport and were taken prisoner. The fighting is still going on, although AFP says that the scale of the fighting today has been less than yesterday. Romanov loyalist (talk) 17:45, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

• A link to Israel–Hamas war was removed from "Ongoing" about a week ago, since it was already linked on the ceasefire agreement blurb at the time. Now that the blurb is no longer on the template, and no other blurb links to the war, I think the link could be restored. ObserveOwl (talk) 20:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

  Or, well, Gaza war, since the page got moved. ObserveOwl (talk) 20:29, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

  The war is suspended. Stephen 21:46, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

  The article says it's ongoing. Maybe this is something to be discussed at Talk:Gaza war, however. ObserveOwl (talk) 21:49, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

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