The M23 Rebellan, which was supported by Rwanda, strengthened his grasp of GOMA, the largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), gave a big blow to the Congo Army, and escalated hundreds of conflicts. People were killed and millions of people were evacuated.
March 23 (M23) fighters entered sesame on Sunday and claimed that they dominated the city one day later. More than 100 people were killed by the three -day collision between the M23 rebels supported by the Congo Army and Rwanda, and nearly 1,000 people were injured in GOMA.
According to local DRC media, intermittent gunshots continued in the northern areas of sesame, such as cabi, Magango, Kibwe, and Trungga, while the majority of battles in the city were alleviated.
In the X post, Barand Bisimwa, the head of the M23 political building, said that the group fighter was in the process of bringing the last pocket of anxiety (sesame).
“Our army is working hard to guarantee complete safety, complete tranquility, and definitive peace, as in all brothers living in the free zone,” said Bisimwa. I said.
When sesame residents appeared on Wednesday, they saw the M23 armed group and the Rwanda army seized the airport and dominated most of the city center and the neighborhood.
“A few days after a fierce battle, there is no sound to be heard in the center of the city, there is usually a street where cars are packed during the rush hour, and the lively market is relatively empty.” Webb reported from Kenya and quoted sesame residents.
Rwanda’s ambassador Vincent Karegega told the AFP News Agency over the phone, and armed groups would not stop attacking sesame.
“They (M23) continue to the South Kib, because sesame cannot tell the end in their own.
He added that the DRC’s “power and military abilities” are “focused on the GOMA” and that the M23 fighter can be pushed beyond the eastern DRC.
Five diplomatic and security sources told the press, Reuters, that the M23 fighter was moving south toward the capital of the capital of Minami Kibu on Wednesday.
The report could not be verified independently.
Humanitarian crisis
Several international aid groups have warned the humanitarian situation in the Congo cities, warning the UN about potential massive disguations, serious food shortages, overloaded hospitals, and illnesses.
Doctors without borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) stated that GOMA teams are continuing to treat injured inflows at Kyshero hospitals.
“In Kyeshero Hospital, bullets pierced the roof of the surgical theater during the operation,” said Virginie Napolitano, an emergency coordinator of the MSF in North Kib.
“Some of our equipment and drugs have been looted, and they are at risk of medical support inside and outside GOMA. Armed looting has also influenced sesame colleagues. One of them. The person was injured in his house during the attack.
The International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) has been alert on the “catastrophic” impact on sesame and its surrounding combat civilian people.
“We have received many calls that have been lost and abandoned from injured and injured. François Motolillon, the head of the ICRC representative in DRC, said: Human law.
“The supply of food to cities can be severely hindered, according to the period of violence,” said Sherry Takral, a world food program spokesman.
M23 is one of the hundreds of armed groups active in the eastern DRC. DRC, the United Nations, and some other countries have blamed Rwanda for supporting the group denied by Kigari.
The group is composed of a Tsuchi fighter and argues that it is fighting for the right of the DRC’s minority Tutchi population. The group from the DRC (Fardc) army broke and appealed for abuse, and appeared in 2012.
In 2012, the M23 captured GOMA, controlled it for about a week, then applied international pressure to Rwanda, including the suspension of the United States and the United Kingdom, and then surrendered.
However, DRC faced the resurrection of M23 violence in 2022. Later, the group progressed with sesame and seized the territory in the battle between the Congo Army and the two peace maintenance missions. Sadc) DRC mission.
The DRC and the United Nations Peaceful Maintenance Mission are the Rwandan army active in GOMA and supports the M23. However, Rwanda states that it opposes the threat of the Congo’s militia without directly dealing with the army over the border.
Expansion for ceasefire
The United States and European countries are seeking a ceasefire, but some countries, including Belgium, have issued DRC travel recommendations. The United Nations urged Rwanda to stop the M23 support.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a discussion with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagago, and in this area, he called for an immediate ceasefire.
Kagame acknowledged that “the need to secure a ceasefire in eastern DRC and fully deal with the root cause of the dispute.”
However, according to CONGOLESE STATE Media, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi does not attend an emergency virtual conference with Kagame scheduled for Wednesday.
According to RTNC in the state, he is expected to spoke to the country in his first official statement since the M23 entered the GOMA on Wednesday.
Algerazilla’s Webb stated that the situation remains severe for sesame citizens until the battle has stopped.
“For the past few days, thousands of people have crossed to Gisenny, an adjacent city of Rwanda. Many others remain in sesame,” he said.
He pointed out that the electricity was turned off for at least five days and the Internet was cut off in most places.
“Certainly for many people … the time is very difficult,” he added.
The international crisis group (ICG), a global think tank aimed at solving a fatal conflict, also issued statements on the violence of the eastern DRC, stating that negotiations are desperately necessary to prevent bloodshed. Ta.
“The battle may spread throughout the five great lake areas without being checked, reminiscent of fear from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.
ICG also suggested that the way that could retreat from the brink was to propose a compromise for East African leaders: M23 and “Africa, probably”, “Probably,” African, which is probably required by the East African community. Withdrew from the alternative.