US EditionRwanda-Backed M23 Rebels Say They’ve Seized the Strategic City of Uvira in Eastern Congo
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Uvira, a strategic city near Burundi, displacing over 200,000 people since early December despite a US-brokered peace agreement, UN reports.
- Dec 10: Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group entered Uvira, South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, after a rapid offensive that began this month, targeting a key Congolese army base and port on Lake Tanganyika.
- The U.S.-brokered peace agreement signed December 4 in Washington excluded M23, and fighting intensified last week amid competition among more than 100 armed groups in eastern Congo.
- Residents of Uvira reported a chaotic night with Congolese army troops fleeing and gunfire, while Lawrence Kanyuka, M23 spokesperson, said on X the city was 'liberated' and urged returns.
- Local U.N. partners report more than 200,000 displaced since Dec. 2 with more than 70 killed, while Burundi registered over 30,000 refugees amid shelling fears in Rugombo, the ICG said.
- Having seized Goma and Bukavu earlier this year, M23 rebel group advances with backing from about 4,000 Rwandan troops, U.N. experts say.
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, only six days after the signing of the Washington Peace Agreement between Kinshasa and Kigali, tension has resumed in the Kivus. Since Wednesday, 10 December, Uvira, the second city in South Kivu, has been invested by AFC/M23, after a flash offensive that saw its fighters enter the city without real resistance. A step forward that raises many questions: why now, less than a week after the signing of the a…
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Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have entered the eastern Congo town of Uvira, near the Burundian border, in the biggest escalation in months of the long-running war, sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Uvira, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, has served as the headquarters of the Kinshasa-appointed government in South Kivu province…
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The rebel group M23 has entered the strategically located town of Uvira in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is the town where the South Kivu provincial government fled after M23 captured the provincial capital, Bukavu, in February. Uvira also houses the government army's regional base. It is unknown whether the rebels hold the entire town. They claim they do, but civilians told Reuters news agency that gunfire is still ongoing.…
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