Dr. At least 17 people killed as United Nations News in the form of fighting in Goma of Congo
The M23 rebel group has declared a major city of Goma under its control, a major setback for the Kangoli army.
The Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) GOMA has intensified fighting in the city as the army stops the M23 forces.
On Monday, the rebels, who say the United Nations, is supported by Rwanda, marched in Goma and announced the major city under their control, indicating a big shock for the Congress army and a serious increase in the year struggle , Which has killed hundreds of people and displaced millions in Eastern DRC.
DRC Rural Development Minister Muhindo Najangi said that the Kangoli army controlled 80 percent of Goma, with rasan soldiers back on the outskirts of the city or across the border.
On Monday, at least 17 people were killed in Goma, and the AFP news agency quoted hospital sources as saying that doctors in the city were treating 367 people who were injured in clashes.
Civil society members and NGOs working in Goma faced death at the age of 25, injuring 375 people.
Mirium Faivier, head of the International Committee of Red Cross in North Kivu province, said, “Our surgical teams are now working around the clock to deal with the huge influx of the injured.”
On Tuesday, South Africa confirmed that his three soldiers died on Monday after being “caught in a crossfire”. It said that another soldier killed in a recent fight also died on Monday.
Goma also had fire exchange between the congregations and the Rawandan soldiers on both sides of crossing a border near Goma.
Rwanda’s army on Monday told the AFP that five civilians were killed and 25 seriously injured on the outskirts of the border city of Giseni.
“Residents told us that they successfully withdrawn the center of the city,” Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Web said, Reporting from Kenai capital Nairobi.
Greg Ram, director of the country of Save the Children in DRC, told an online briefing on Tuesday that “we have reports that the neighborhoods are quiet, a few minutes later, we hear new shell reports”.
According to spokesperson Patrick Muayaya, the DRC government said that Goma continues to work to avoid massacres and loss of human life in Goma.
A resident of Goma told the Reuters News Agency that he had seen men in Rwanda Army uniform on Monday.
“In the evening, I went out to see what the situation was. I noticed that the soldiers are wearing a completely new rapport uniform, ”said a resident of Central Goma.
M23, or March 23 movement, is one of the hundreds of armed groups working in Eastern DRC and is trying to control significant mineral mines.
The group is made up of Tutasi fighters and claims that it is fighting for the rights of the DRC’s minority Tutsi population. It broke after a group of armed forces of DRC in 2012, which complains of sick treatment.
In 2012, M23 first seized Goma, but the Kangoli army, supported by the United Nations forces, pushed the rebels back into the eastern hills along the border with Rwanda.
The DRC government and the United Nations accused Rwanda of supporting M23 with soldiers and weapons in a bid to control the mineral-rich Eastern DRC under President Paul Kagame.
“There is no question that Goma has Rwanda soldiers who are supporting M33,” told reporters at the same livestrimped event. “It is difficult to mention what numbers are.”
Rwanda denied the allegation and accused the DRC of losing the members of the Democratic Forces for the liberation of Rwanda, which was involved in the 1994 Rawandan massacre.
As the fight increases, the peace and security council of the African Union will hold a meeting later on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.
The United Nations Security Council will also be held on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.
