This city’s yearly music festival Amani uses the slogan “Playing for Change, Singing for Peace” to reference conflict with M23 rebels nearby. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this capital of North Kivu province. Because M23 rebels skirmish with Wazalendo militias in the area around this city, about 700,000 internally displaced people have come to this city over the last few years.
ANSWER: Goma
[10m] M23 gets much of its support from Congolese members of this ethnic group. A member of this ethnic group who backs M23 won a 4th term in 2024 as leader of a country across the border from Goma.
ANSWER: Tutsi
[10e] The M23 attacks on Goma have led to a flareup of this disease, which has had a Congolese outbreak since 2023. A summer 2022 outbreak of this disease was concentrated in men who have sex with men.
ANSWER: mpox [or monkeypox]
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