{UAH} fighting between the army and the M23 in North Kivu

DRC: confusion after fighting between the army and the M23 in North Kivu

Goma (DR Congo) - Fighting broke out between Thursday morning M23 rebels and government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rebel offensive denouncing the army which in turn denied and referred a simple snap. This is the first direct fighting between the March 23 Movement (M23) and the army since August 30, when the rebels had retreated to the hills where they threatened Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu, following a joint offensive of the army and brigade intervention of the UN Mission for Stabilization in the DRC (MONUSCO). These new incident came as the M23 trading at Kampala, Uganda, with the Congolese government. 's government army and other militias attack since that night the positions held by our forces on Mabenga Kiwanja-axis, about 80 km north of Goma, said in a statement the President of the M23, Bertrand Bisimwa. Contacted by AFP, the spokesman of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) in North Kivu, Lieutenant Colonel Olivier Hamuli did spoken with a single hook, quickly finished. There was an altercation between two FARDC patrols and fight M23 Kahunga early this morning [...] The calm came back, he said. Kahunga is town near near Kiwanja. The spokesman did not specify the circumstances of the collision. A senior army officer told AFP on condition of anonymity, that the enemy (was) came to attack (the) army positions According to Colonel Hamuli two fighters were M23 killed and a soldier was injured. Accusing the government troops to fight alongside the Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and Mai-Mai (vigilantes), the press says Mr. Bisimwa other forces of the coalition are now moving on-Kinyandoni Ishasha axis. Ishasha is a city on the border with Uganda. This attack (...) is a way for the Congolese government to undermine peace efforts in recent days by the international community and led to the resumption of Kampala, says Bisimwa. By midmorning, it was still difficult to get a clear idea of the situation there. I saw farmers returning from fields because there clashes between the M23 and the army, told AFP Arsene, a resident of Kiwanja reached by phone from Goma. There is a small psychosis in the city of Kiwanja, has he added, saying he saw two jeeps reinforcements M23. Nothing was seen or heard anything. We were only told farmers to go. It's been two days since they tell us to leave the field, however, told AFP on condition of not being named, another resident of Kiwanja town under the control of M23 since July 2012. Arsene said I saw three tanks of the UN towards Mabenga. MONUSCO has a base in Kiwanja, but the military spokesman in Kinshasa was not able to provide an accurate assessment of the situation on the ground in mid-morning. M23 was born in 2012 in North Kivu (mineral-rich province bordering Rwanda and Uganda) a mutiny of former Congolese rebels who had been reinstated in 2009 in the Congolese army following a peace agreement. rebels demanding the full implementation of this agreement and essentially defend the rights of Congolese Tutsis. (© AFP / September 26, 2013 24:11) 

 

 

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