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Friday, March 23, the rebels (M23) continued their progress in the Eastern Democratic Congo after their almost complete control of strategic Goma, and the movement promised to continue to crawl towards the capital Kinshasa.
The United Nations announced that at least 700 people dead and 2,800 injured had been killed in the battles that took place between Sunday and Thursday in the east of the Republic Democratic Congo To control the city of Guma, the capital of the northern region of Kivu.
The week’s attack was a sudden escalation in a witness area of a conflict in which dozens of armed movements were involved and killed around 6 million people over three decades.
The M -23 Fighters – who are accused of receiving support from Rwanda – continued their progress in the south of Goma, where the French news agency cited sources that the fighting was concentrated about 30 kilometers from the city of Kavomo on the south of the West Bank of the Democrat of Democrat Lac Kivu.
The city contains a strategic military airport, in which the Armed Forces of Congo Democrat have created its main defense line, 40 km north of Boukavo, the capital of the southern Kivu region.
Rwanda says that it seeks to eliminate combatants linked to the genocide which took place in 1994, but is accused of seeking to benefit from the resources of the region, in particular minerals used in the micro-electronic industry.
Friday, a new military governor of Kivu, a new military sovereign, led the city of Beni, who declared a new capital of the region after the fall of Guma. The former governor of North Kivu spent last week after being shot down near the confrontation line.