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UN: Reports of sexual violence amid worsening crisis in eastern Congo

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Fighting has intensified in recent days after the M23 rebel group claimed control of Goma on Lake Kivu .

The Rwanda -backed M23 militia is one of more than 100 armed groups in resource-rich eastern Congo .

In the territories it has occupied, M23 has "occupied schools and hospitals," the UN says.

The group has "subjected the civilian population to forced conscription and forced labour," it says.