Dr. Congo’s rebels vow to take Kinshas after they asked for a gom | News of the conflict
The UN claims that the M23 fighters supported thousands of Rwanda soldiers in munking in the east of a rich mineral.
The rebels supported in Rwanda are closed to the key Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Bukava, promising to continue their mounted abusive until they take over the national capital.
Bloody conflict in Eastern Drc has dramatically turned this week when fighters with M23 supported Kigali, claimed to take control of control over Gom In the Province of Northern Kiva before progressing south in the direction of Bukavu, the capital of the southern Kivu.
“We will continue the release march all the way to Kinshas,” the rebel leader Corneille Nanga said on Thursday, four days after the group said that she had captured Gom, where the struggles left dozens of those killed and saw that Congolese soldiers had surrendered from the city from the city to an undiscovered place.
On Thursday, the M23 fighters were allegedly at a distance from the Strategic Military Airport in the City of Kavum, located about 40 km (25 miles) north of Bukavu, according to local sources quoted by the AFP news agency.
The United Nations spokesman warned on the same day that the organization was worried by “credible reports” that the M23 “moves quickly” towards Bukavu, which has two million inhabitants.
The UN experts claim that M23 – one of more than 100 armed groups fighting for control in the East of DRC – supported about 4,000 soldiers from Rwanda, which Kinshas says is that he is looting valuable resources from mineral -rich territories.
Rwanda, for her part, says her main goal is to eradicate the 1994 genocide fighters, accusing the Congol army of joining forces with ethnic militia under the guidance of Hutu bent on slaughter and threatening their neighbor.
Rebeling fighters claim that they are open to dialogue with the Government in Kinshasi. But the Minister of Defense Congole, Guy Kabobo Muadiamvit, rejected the conversations this week, saying in a video planning any dialogue with the rebels to be “immediately burned”.
In response to the crisis, the regional block leaders, the South African developmental community (Sadac), have been convened on Friday in the Zimbabwe capital, Harare, Friday.
The meeting follows the growing tension between President Rwanda Paul Kagame and President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphos after the death of 13 South African soldiers in the East of DRC.
Foreign Minister Rwande Olivier Nduhungirehe said on Thursday: “We are ready to defend ourselves if we are attacked by a coalition, including South African forces.”
Goma was mostly without electricity and water on Thursday, as the bodies of several alleged government soldiers lay on the streets.
The M23 offensive has increased the already severe humanitarian crisis in the region, causing food and water shortages and forcing half a million people from their homes this month, according to the international organization for migration.
“Millions of people have already been displaced in the years of conflict in the Eastern DRC, and the humanitarian needs were huge. With a current alarming rise in the fight, the difficult situation quickly becomes much worse, “said the director Iom Amy Pope.
