The fighting raged on Monday in Goma, on the border of Rwanda in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, between the Congolese forces and fighters of the armed group M23, connected with the Rwandan troops, killed 17 and almost 370 injured.
After lightning progression in recent weeks and from the failure of the DC-Rwanda under the Angola in mid-December, fighters M23 (“Movement 23 March”) and Rwandan soldiers, the number of several thousand in the DRC according to the UN arrived on Sunday to Gates on Sunday of goma.
According to AFP journalists in the city center supported artillery and intensive gusts of light weapons. At the end of the afternoon, the shots were less common, but they were still fed at the airport.
It is difficult to determine which parts of the city fell into the hands of M23 and Rwandan soldiers and who remain controlled by Kinshasa. The capital of the province of Northern Kiva, Goma is home to a million inhabitants for so much displaced.
At least 17 people were killed and 367 injured in these fighting, according to the balance sheet of several hospitals acquired by AFP.
“Massive influx of injured”
“Our surgical teams are now working 24 hours a day to face the massive influx of injured while the fighting continues,” said moving civilians, AFP Myriam Favier, head of the International Committee of Red Red Cross (CicR) in North Kiv, supported, supported, supported several hospitals in several hospitals the city.
The humanitarian situation in Goma is “extremely worrying”, pointed out the UN, which now concentrates its missions on the protection of civilians, which “pays the highest price”.
The east of KDR has been shaken for more than 30 years of conflicts, and the turbulent relationships have deteriorated from the 1994 Rwandan genocide. DrC accuses Rwanda, especially for wanting to make a hand on his many natural wealth that Kigali has denied.
The Congolese government assured that it wanted to “avoid bloodshed”, according to its spokesman Patrick Muyaya.
M23 was screaming on Sunday, “the famous day of the liberation of Goma”. Goma, however, woke up on Monday to chaos prison and detainees.
Some Congolese soldiers went to the Rwandan side and walked through the border a few kilometers away to return weapons, according to Rwandan Radioévision, confirmed by the UN.
“More than 120 Fardc fighters (Congolese Army) and Wazalendo (Pro-Kinshasa Militian) arrived this (Monday) in the morning, we disarmed them, as we did for many other years,” confirmed AFP spokesman Rwandan Army, Ronald Rwinga .
Others fled the ships at Lake Kiva. Backpack, weapons in hand and mattress on the shoulder, landed in the harbor of Bukava, on the other side of the lake separating both cities, according to the video consulted by AFP.
In some districts, the M23 was welcomed by the inhabitants in joy without finding out whether their reaction was fed by membership or fear.
“Declared War”
On Sunday, Kinshasa accused Rwanda to “announce the war” by missing new units at the weekend in DRC, between 500 and 1,000 men according to UN sources, while the UN called Kigali to withdraw forces from the region.
Rwanda replied that she had retained “sustainable defensive posture” with regard to the fighting representing a “serious security threat to Rwanda”.
At the beginning of the afternoon on Monday, a spokesman for the Rwandan army announced that 5 civilians were killed, 25 people were seriously injured, and others were slightly more in the Rwandan Goma location, without more details of circumstances.
The rapid procedure from M23 to Goma, doubled the diplomatic escalation between DC and Rwanda, led to Nairobi’s summons from the TshiseKedi-Kagame meeting, Kenya announced on Monday.
The Council of Peace and Security of the African Union (CPS) will last on Tuesday in the middle of the day of the “emergency meeting” of this crisis.
Head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, condemned “Attack on Goma of M23, (group) supported by Rwanda, and confirmed respect for the United States for the sovereignty of DC”, while talking to Mr. TshiseKedi, according to the press release.
According to AFP letter on Sunday evening on Sunday, which clearly did not request to withdraw Rwandan troops from the territory of dismay, which AFP clearly did not request to withdraw Rwandan troops from the territory, also “dismay”. . On Tuesday afternoon a new meeting of the Security Council will be held on this topic.
Mediation Drc-Rwanda under Aegis Angola failed in December due to lack of agreement.
According to the armies of the participating countries, thirteen South African regional forces (Samirdc) and Monusco have been killed in the fight in recent days in recent days.
According to the UN, 400,000 people have been moving since the beginning of January.
Goma was briefly occupied by M23 at the end of 2012, born this year and defeated in the following year.
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