ADVERTISEMENT Hundreds of injured men, women and children have been injured and taken to hospitals in and around Goma as fighting has intensified between the M23 and government troops. Nine United Nations peacekeepers also sustained injuries in the fighting, the U.N. said, as the rebels close in on the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich eastern region. M23 has made significant territorial gains in recent weeks, encircling Goma, which has around two million people