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Lushagala Kashaka’s internal displaced field, which houses about 10,000 people, has received internal displaced people who fled for days due to recent conflict.
Humanitarian ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from this Tuesday. At least 900 bodies were recovered after days of fighting in the city of Goma.
The Rebel Movement 23 de Março group (M23) declared on Monday that it will observe a humanitarian cease In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (RDCongo), from this Tuesday.
The announcement occurs a week after the M23, with the support of Rwandan military, after days of intense fighting with the Democratic Army.
After having conquered Gum, the capital of the province of Kivu Norte, the AFC-M23 ensured that the Rebelde Group has no intention of taking Bukavucapital of the neighboring province of Kivu Sul, in the direction of which he advanced last week.
900 dead in a week
At least 900 bodies They were recovered after days of fighting in the city of Goma, according to the United Nations. Added that the clashes still caused 2,900 injured.
The city’s hospitals were on the 28th overloaded with injured and corpses were forgotten through the streets, the UN agencies reported on the site. Testimonies from violations Combatants committed, he advances to Reuters Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Humanitarian Office (OCHA).
“We are listening to reports of health professionals to be shot and sick, including babies, to be caught in cross fire, ”said Adelheid Marschang, coordinator of the World Health Organization (WHO) emergency response to Congo.
According to UN experts, The M23 is supported by about four thousand soldiers from neighboring Rwandamuch more than in 2012, when they first captured gum.
The rebel movement is the most powerful of the more than 100 armed groups that vie for RDCongo’s east control, a neighboring Mineral Rich country, which has vast essential deposits for much world technology. The group is mostly constituted by combatants of Tutsi origin, victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that killed approximately 800,000 people.
