The M33 rebel group has declared the key city of Goma under its control, which has caused a major blow to the Congress army.
The fighting has intensified in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) city Goma as the army is maintaining M33 forces.
On Monday, the rebels, who say Rwanda have been supported, marched in Goma and declared the key city under their control, which caused the Congress army a major setback and in a long conflict. There was a serious increase that killed hundreds of people and displaced millions in the eastern DRC.
DRC Rural Development Minister Mohndu Nazangi said that the Congress army controlled 80 percent of Goma, in which Rwanda troops either returned to the outskirts of the city or across the border.
At least 17 people were killed in Goma on Monday, and AFP News Agency quoted hospital sources as saying that doctors were treating 367 people injured in clashes in the city.
Civil society members and NGOs working in Goma killed 25 deaths, injuring 375 people.
“Our surgical teams are now working 24 hours to deal with the widespread arrival of the injured,” Mary Fewier, head of the Red Cross International Committee in North Kiwu Province, told AFP.
On Tuesday, South Africa confirmed His three soldiers died In fighting on Monday after “being trapped in a crossfire”. It added that another soldier killed in the recent fighting died on Monday.
There were also fire exchanges between the Congles and Rwanda troops on both sides of the border crossing near Goma.
Five civilians were killed and 25 were seriously injured in the outskirts of Rwanda’s border city of Jizeni, Rwanda’s army told AFP on Monday.
“Residents told us that they have successfully withdrawn some part of the city center,” said Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Web, reporting from the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
“We have reports that the locality is calm, a few minutes later, we hear new shelling reports,” Greg Ram, Country Director of Safe the Children in the DRC, told an online briefing on Tuesday.
The United Nations has said it has stopped eating aid around Goma.
Meanwhile, the DRC government said that “he is continuing to work to prevent the massacre and the loss of human life in Goma.”
A Goma resident told Reuters News Agency that he had seen men in the Rwanda army uniform on Monday.
“In the evening, I came out to see what the situation was. “I saw soldiers dressed in uniforms in New Rwanda,” a Central Goma resident said.
The M -3, or March 23 movement, is one of the hundreds of armed groups operating in the East DRC and is trying to overcome major mineral mines.
The group is comprised of fighters and claims that it is fighting for the rights of the DRC minority population. It emerged in 2012 when a group of DRC (FADC) Armed Forces broke out, which they complained of abuse.
In 2012, M23 first occupied Goma, but with the help of UN forces, the Congress army pushed rebels back to the eastern hills on the border with Rwanda in 2013.
The DRC government and the United Nations have accused Rwanda, under President Paul Kagamim, to support the M30 with soldiers and weapons to control the Eastern DRC -rich Eastern DRC.
“There is no question that there are Rwanda troops in Goma that support M33,” UN Peace Army Chief Jean Pierre Lockrox told reporters in a lively event. “It’s hard to tell what the numbers are.”
Rwanda has denied the allegations and has accused the DRC of providing shelter to members of the Democratic Forces of Rwanda for the liberation of Rwanda, a rebel group in Kagam, who in 1994 Was involved in genocide.
When the fighting is on the rise, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council will hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.
The UN Security Council will also hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.
