Goma-based Journalist Emmet Livingstone says life in DRC is extremely difficult. This as escalating violence in the region has left many people displaced or confined indoors due to sporadic gunfire.

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Government officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced that the army is now controlling most of the town of Goma in the country's eastern region. However, the M23 rebels are adamant that they are controlling the town. For an update on the situation in the DRC, Sakina Kamwendo spoke to a journalist in Goma in the Eastern DRC, Emmet Livingstone.