M23 rebels make progress because DRC GOV’t offers a $ 5 million reward to capture the rebels | News of the conflict
The Fighters Eye’s strategic city of Walikale, because government forces suffer a lack of constant struggles.
The M23 armed group pushed deeper into the region rich in the mineral republics of the Democratic Republic of Congo after catching the key cities of Gom and the Bukava-Bukava-North and South Kiva Provinces in recent weeks.
Security sources said Al Jazeera that rebels supported from Rwanda entered the village of Nyabiando, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Gom, and located on a road leading to a strategic city in northern Kivu.
“Walikale is very important for the Government, because it is the only place where the Government has an industrial mine from which millions of tax payments receive,” said Alain Uaykani al Jazeera, reporting from Gom.
In a major move by government forces, one of the government of allied armed groups, known as the Kabido group, announced that he joined the M23 fighters. The Kabido Group has been active in Eastern DRC for decades and has been fighting the army for the last three years. Her leaders announced this weekend to officially join the M23 to fight what they call “the bad management of the Kinshas Government”.
“This shows disorganization within the DRC army, and M23 uses this situation on the ground,” Uaykani said, adding that the second group was shortly after.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said that escalating attacks hit hospitals and other civilian infrastructure, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
“Between March 1 and 3, several hospitals were targeting armed actors in escalating violence against medical centers and health staff,” Ocha said. The security in the crowd threatens to “re -early criminal acts, including the burglary of homes, thefts and attacks,” said Sunday, adding that hospitals and schools were forced to close in other areas.
Ocha said at least four civilians were killed in the fight between M23 and rival groups in the Masis district between 18 and 25 February, and more than 100,000 people were newly displaced in a watermelon in the north.
A prize of $ 5 million to capture the M23 rebel leader
Meanwhile, the DRC authorities have offered a $ 5 million prize to assist in the arrest of the rebel leaders, as the government’s forces are trying to restrain their progress.
“The five million dollar reward is offered to every person who helps the arrest of convicts Corneille Nanga, Bertrand Bisimwa and Sultani Makeng,” the Ministry of Justice announced on Friday.
Nangaa is a leader in the Congo River Alliance (AFC) -All-Political Coalition to which M23 belongs. He is also a former president of an independent national election commission of the DRC. Bisimwa and Makeng are the president and military boss M23.
Trsheed in the absence of Kinshasi, all three men were sentenced and sentenced to death in August 2024.
The DRC authorities also offer a wealth of $ 4 million for all information that leads to the arrest of three “presusters on the run” and “other sought after individuals,” the statement said.
More than 7,000 people have been killed in the fight on East DRC since January, with a “significant” number of civilians among the dead.
The M23 is one of more than 200 armed groups operating in the Eastern DRC -II fighting for control over the minerals of the region. After sleeping for more than a decade, the group continued the fighting in 2021 and seized large territories in northern Kivu, which borders Rwanda.
In recent weeks M23 has launched a lightning offensive, Grabbing Goma and noisy. A group of experts of the United States of the United States accuse Rwanda supporting M23 – He states that Kigali denies.
