Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have actually confiscated Kanyabayonga, a critical community in eastern Congo’s North Kivu district, in a step that sees them get much more ground from the nation’s authorities. Home to over 60,000 citizens and 10s of countless displaced individuals, Kanyabayonga is calculated because it is a crucial course to business centers Butembo and Beni in the north. Also even worse, it is the 4th area in the Kivu district the rebels have actually gone into after Rutshuru, Nyiragongo and Masisi. Provided their uncontrolled advancement in the area, citizens currently locate themselves caught with no place to go. After they took the community, M23 agent Willy Ngoma held a conference prompting citizens to remain. Regardless of the team’s pledge of tranquility, the circumstance stays alarming with numerous being afraid more rebel developments. Congo’s Head of state, Felix Tshisekedi, has actually given that held a conference of the protection council in what one can just think is a quote to stop the rebels’ march.
RESOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
