Rebels supported by Rwanda marched to the center of the largest city in East of Congo on Monday, according to witnesses, in the latest climbing of decades of conflict in a region that already suffers one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
The rebel alliance, led by Tutsi’s M23 militia, said he had captured the whole city by the lake, but this could not be confirmed independently.
There were shots of fire near the airport, city center and border with Rwanda, with two residents reporting continuous clashes between the government -aligned militia and the M23 combatants.
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“There is confusion in the city. Here, near the airport, we see soldiers. I haven’t seen the M23, ”a resident told Reuters by phone, asking not to be identified.
“There are also some cases of looting stores.”
The Eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo is a flammable place with rebel and militia ferms resulting from two regional wars after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when extremists Hutus murdered about 1 million moderate tutsis and Hutus.
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The M23, the latest in a long line of rebel movements led by the Tutsis and supported by Rwanda, captured Gum in 2012, but withdrew days later, after an agreement mediated by neighboring nations.
Congo has more than 100 armed groups, especially in eastern 100 million Central African nation, which is approximately the size of Western Europe and has abundant mineral supplies in the sights of Chinese and Western companies.
