It seems that the great attack of the Rebel Group M23, which supported Rwanda, stopped on Saturday after the army returned part of the territory under its control, two sources from civil society and local official.
The rebels, led by ethnic tutsi, took Goma, the largest city in the east of Kong and the capital of the northern kiva with lucrative gold mines, tin and coltan.
Then they headed to Bukavu in the province of Southern Kiv, which increased the fear of a broader regional conflict, but it seemed that they kept the Congoian soldiers on Friday with the help of Burundian armed forces.
Local Civil Society Leader Justin Mulindangabo said the army was rebounding the village of Mukwi, Shanja, Numbi and Nyamasas and other places in Kalehe between Goma and Bukavu.
Another source from civil society said that there was no fight in Kalehe on Saturday morning.
Security risks
The local official said the army strengthened his positions to the territory and returned control over several villages, including Mukwi.
The source, who did not want to be appointed for security reasons, said the fighting continues to last elsewhere.
The Congoian army did not answer the request for a comment on the situation on Saturday, and the M23 group could not be established by contact.
Burundian forces support Congoan soldiers in South Kivu and in other places at the request of the Government in Kinshasi.
Together they make part of the forces that seek to stop the progression of the M23 and Rwand Army north of Kavumu, the city of 35 kilometers north of Bukavu, where Airport and numerous Congoian drones and other aircraft.
Mirnii South Kivu
Mulindangababo, who lives in Kavumu, said that the city was calm on Saturday and that the residents of no more panic cases have already continued with their daily lives, reuters and Hina reports.
Well-trained and professionally armed group M23 is the most centered movement led by tutsi supported by Rwanda in the eastern part of Kong after two consecutive installments rooted in the 1994 genocide in 1994.
The latest escalation in the long-lasting conflict has led to international critiques of Rwanda and great diplomatic activity with constant calls to truce.
Burundian President Evarista Ndayishimiye threatened an answer in the case of any ruandic intrusion into his country that shares the border with Congo and Rwanda.
“We won’t accept that, the war will expand,” Ndayishimiye said on a briefing on Friday.
The Rwanda government was not available for a comment for now.
Rwanda has always denied M23 and claims to operate defensively, accusing the Congoan Army for Association with Armed Hutu, for which he intends to kill Tutsia in Congo and to threaten Rwanda.
Members of the Nations Hutu attacked Tutsia in the 1994 genocide, and some of them later fled to the Congo.
The Congo denies these allegations and accuses Rwanda to use M23 to rob valuable minerals on his territory, transmits Aljazeera.
(Vijesti.ba)
