Episode Notes:

Fighting has once again flared up between government forces and the M23 rebel group in eastern Congo, near the provincial capital Goma in North Kivu. Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joined the WarCast to tell us more about the violence and where it could be headed.

[:36] What is happening in Eastern Congo

[2:10] What is causing this resurgence in violence?

[4:10] What does it look like on the ground?

[5:34] UN withdrawal

[7:48] Will Russia step in?

[9:07] What other actors are complicating this?

[10:49] Violence in other countries on the African continent