On Saturday, a summit of African leaders called for a “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” within five days to address the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The M23 Armed Rebel Group has separated the rapid region’s health in an aggressive in the mineral-rich Eastern DRC, which has left thousands of dead and displaced huge numbers.
The DRC government has designed the M23 rebel group as a terrorist organization, while the United Nations and the United States classify it as an armed rebel group.
The summit in Tanzania brought Rwanda President Paul Kagame and his congregational counterpart, Felix Teskedi, as well as East African community blocks and 16-member South African development community leaders together.
The Kagame appeared in the individual, while TshiseKedi joined through video calls.
In the final statement, the summit called army chiefs from both communities to “meet with five days and provide technical direction on immediate and unconditional ceasefire.”
Therefore, the dead and injured were called to inaugurate the human corridors to vacate.
Mauhill, Fighting was running about 60 km from South Kivu Provincial capital Bakuvu, local and security sources told AFP.
M23 took the strategic city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province last week and is pushed into the neighboring South Kivu in the latest episode of decades of upheaval in the region.
Local fear
Since the M23 was resumed in 2021, the peace talks organized by Angola and Kenya have failed and many ceasefire have collapsed.
While Rwanda continues to refuse to support M23 military, a report by UN experts said that Rwanda had about 4000 soldiers in DRC and the country’s huge quantity of gold and smuggling out of colon Earned profits – a mineral important for phone and lapt.
Rwanda accused the DRC of sheltering democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda to the armed group formed by Ethnic Hutas, who carried out the massacre of Tutis during the 1994 race massacre.
The summit comes in the midst of the summit that the city of Kavumu in South Kivu is closing, which hosts the important airport for the supply of Kangoli soldiers.
Therefore, reports of nervousness in the provincial capital Bukevu climb shops as residents and seek to escape.
He said, “The border is open with Rwanda, but almost is trying to cross the number of people. It is total anarchy,” he said.
Gang rape, slavery
The United Nations’ rights head Volcar Turk warned on Friday: “If nothing is done, the worst may not yet come to the Eastern DRC people, but beyond the boundaries of the country.”
The Ottoman stated that about 3000 people were killed and 2.880 injured Sion entered Goma on 26 January, and the final toll was likely to be very high.
He said that his team said that “is currently verifying many allegations of rape, gang rape and sexual slavery.”
M23 has already established its own mayor and local authorities in Goma.
It has vowed to march all the way for the national capital Kinshhasa, even though the city is about 1.600 km in the vast country, which is the size of Western Europe.
The DRC Army, which has a reputation for poor training and corruption, has been forced into several retreats.
The M23 aggressive has feared a regional, given that many countries are supporting DRCs including South Africa, Burundi and Malawi.
