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Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, UN says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP ... On Feb. 28, M23 fighters raided the CBCA Ndosho Hospital and Heal Africa Hospital in Goma, a strategic city they seized earlier this year, the U.N. Human Rights Office ...