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Eight sources said on Wednesday, in a clear violation of the unilateral ceasefire, that the Rwandan -backed rebels took control of the town of Taen in the South Kivu Democratic Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
NYABIBE’s arrest takes a step closer to the province’s capital, Bocafo, about 70 km south, a city that the rebels said last week that they are not intended to seize it. M23 announced the ceasefire on Monday.
Eight people, including local officials, civil society representatives, rebels and international security source, confirmed that Nepoy had fallen in front of the rebels.
The civil society leader, who loves the other, said the sources spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The World Food Program warns of lack of food, clean water and medical supplies in Goma, in the east of the Congo, where the waves of fighting led to the displacement of thousands of people and supply chains.
NYABIBE, where MINES GOLD and Coltan and other minerals are produced more than mid -road between Goma, the capital of the Northern KIVU province that the rebels took last week, and Bocavo.
Representative Minister of Congo Patrick Moyaya told Reuters who violated the ceasefire at night and was facing resistance from the Congolese armed forces around Niboy.
Cornell Nanga, leader of the Rebel Reebl Con River Alliance, which includes the M23, confirmed that the group has moved to NYabIBE. “We have attacked and defended ourselves,” he told Reuters.
This progress can indicate that the M23 has renewed pushing for Bocafo, which was launched by the group after it seized Goma last week.
The capture of the largest city in the Eastern Congo resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people and encouraging fears of a broader regional war.
The Congo is accused of Rwanda of using M23 to loot valuable metal deposits. Rwanda says she behaves in self -defense and ethnic totsi protection.
“Human losses are amazing”
The volume of civil damage was still arising in Goma, where people were arrested last week in the crossing and combating destroyed buildings, overwhelming hospitals and left bodies scattered in the streets.
On Wednesday, the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Coordination on Wednesday was that at least 2,800 people died in Gouma.
“The human losses are amazing. We and our partners are struggling to assess the full range of the situation.”
The International Criminal Court said that they were closely monitoring the events after reports of the potential war crimes in the battle for Goma.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that its medical warehouse in Goma was looted last week and it will take place.
Bishop Willie Nagumbi on Wednesday exhausted damage to the maternity wing of explosives, called Rwanda, Congo and Burundi – who also have forces in the area that helps in the Congo – to hold talks to prevent the conflict from escalating.
The rebels, with the support of Rwanda, say they seized the largest city in the eastern Congo with the United Nations saying that there is “collective panic” in Goma. Didier Kagongo is London from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Join London to talk about how the situation and his family affected him at home.
In the capital Kinshasa, the legislators of the National Assembly held an extraordinary, long, closed session to discuss the crisis before a summit with East and South Africa leaders in Tanzania this week.
A diplomatic source said that Rwanda opposed the presence of forces from the 16 -member development community that supports the Congo, which extended its mission late last year.
Despite the renewed fighting, Malawi was martyred on Wednesday with a ceasefire in her forces to withdraw from force.
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