# Goma falls under M23 with RDF support, as recited in S/RES/2773

Date: 2025

## The fact

On 28 January 2025 Goma’s airport and main entries came under M23 with RDF support, as later recited in S/RES/2773, which also recites Masisi on 4 January and Sake on 23 January.

## Context

He commands the RDF. M23 executed in the field. The Council later wrote 2773. Troop estimates are contested.

Goma 28 January; Bukavu 14 February; 2773 on 21 February 2025. Keep Goma falls under M23 with RDF support, as recited in S/RES/2773 on 2025-01-28 separate from neighbouring M23, 2773, ballot, and mapping-report instruments.

The president of Rwanda is head of state and commander-in-chief of the RDF. He can decree, run a 99 percent ballot, and open or close a cross-border file. He does not write UNSC resolutions, does not sit as a Johannesburg inquest magistrate, and does not author a unique DRC civilian death total invented here.

## Evidence and sources

UN Security Council carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is eastern-drc-m23-rdf: a completed city capture recited by the Council.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2773 recites M23/RDF control of Goma on 28 January 2025.

Not established: A unique Goma civilian death total from that day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

2773 records RDF support. M23 executed in the field.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Goma falls under M23 with RDF support, as recited in S/RES/2773, not a later speech about Goma falls under M23 with RDF support, as recited in S/RES/2773.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Goma falls under M23 with RDF support, as recited in S/RES/2773 on 2025-01-28 is not a licence to treat every later UN Security Council communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Goma falls under M23 with RDF support, as recited in S/RES/2773 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He commands the RDF. 2773 records RDF support. M23 executed in the field. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Paul Kagame: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-kagame

## Drivers

- Eastern DRC / M23–RDF (Great Lakes): https://factrail.ai/drivers/eastern-drc-m23-rdf

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/m23-rebels-drc-goma-2025-01-28/
- https://undocs.org/S/RES/2773(2025)

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/rw-goma-2025