The congratulations security forces are struggling to commit violence in Goma, where the Rwanda-supported M33 rebels have consolidated their control over the largest city of Eastern Congo. Supported by Rawandan soldiers, rebel fighters on Monday marched when the biggest fang for more than a decade in the city of Lakeside of about 2 million.
It was not clear how much control of the provincial capital was under control, but according to media reports, the M23 armed group confiscated the control of the Goma airport, which was the main route to help to reach hundreds of thousands of displaced people Could cut.
Security source told news agency AFP that “more than 1,200 Congress soldiers have surrendered and are limited by the United Nations Mission airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Violence quickly increased
Destin Jamaica Banana, who fled from across the border for Rowanda fighting in Goma, told the AFP that “things changed very fast”.
“The bombs were falling and killing other people everywhere, we saw the dead bodies,” said 24 -year -old.
Bartrand Bisimwa, who led the M23 political wing, said on X that the last pocket of resistance in Goma was placed below.
He said, “Our army is working hard to guarantee total security, complete peace and certain peace, because all their compatriots are a matter for everyone living in free areas.”
Meanwhile, in the Kinshsa, a 1,600 km (1,000 mi) to the west of Goma, protesters attacked a United Nations campus and embassies on Tuesday, including Rwanda, France and the United States, which he said that there was foreign intervention.
Hospital overflow
According to an AFP tally of deaths from the city’s overflow hospitals, more than 100 people were killed and around 1,000 injured during the intensive clashes.
“We had to drought gasoline from ambulance to provide electricity to the generator because there are people on the respiratory image that cannot survive without electricity … injuries are often very serious. Some people die before they die. ” The manager of a Goma hospital told the Reuters of the news agency.
Crisis summit
Crisis-Hit Dr. The President of the Congo Felix Teskedi was designed to hold a meeting with Rwanda President Paul Kagame on the “extraordinary” summit of the East African community organized by Kenya on Wednesday, as the fighters supported by Kigli were carried forward in Goma.
Next to the crisis negotiations, US Secretary State Marco Rubio pressed Cagam for an immediate end to fight in a call, which was described by the Rawandan leader on Wednesday as “productive”. Rubio told Kagame that Washington “harassed” and urged respect for “sovereign regional integrity”, the US State Department said in a statement.
Later, in a post on X, Rwanda President Paul Kagame said that he had agreed to a phone call with US State Secretary Maro Rubio at the need of a ceasefire, but was to bended to seem to return from Goma Did not indicate.
Kagame wrote, “Eastern DRC had a productive interaction with Secretary Rubio on the need to ensure a ceasefire and addressed the root causes of struggle once and for all.”
The attack on Goma condemned Rwanda’s extensive international condemnation and called for the ceasefire. The United States on Tuesday urged the United Nations Security Council to consider unwarded measures to stop aggressive.
About DRC conflict
M23 30 years ago is the latest in a string of Ethnic Tutasi-LED, Rwandan-supported rebels since the massacre in Rwanda, when Hutu extremists killed Tutis and Middle Hutas, and then from Tits LED forces were collided- under the leadership of Kame.
Rwanda says some oust criminals have taken refuge in the Congo since the massacre, forming militia with alliances with the Congo government, and pose a threat to the congregation Tutis and Rwanda.
Congo dismissed Rwanda’s complaints and said that Rwanda has used her proxy militia to control and rob attractive minerals such as Coleton, which is used in smartphones.
The M23 rebels first captured Goma during their last major rebellion in 2012, but withdrew after a few days after intensive international pressure and threatened to withdraw assistance to Rwanda. Citing analysts and diplomats, Reuters said that this time there is no possibility of such pressure that the world powers depressed Rwanda to take Rwanda, which deployed themselves as a stable partner in a stable area Has done