The Rwandan -backed M23 rebels who seized in late January, Juma, the largest city in the eastern Congo, since then to the second largest city in the region, Bocafo.
The last fighting is part of a major escalation of the conflict on power, identity and resources dating back to the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s and the fall of the dictator Mobutu Sese Sese in the country and then known as Zaire.
In his last fire, hundreds of thousands of people were believed to have been killed since 2012 and more than a million people have been displaced now.
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After Guma took, the rebels pressed south towards Bocafo, the capital of the South Kevo Province. On Friday, they controlled Kavomo’s strategic airport that serves Bocafo.
The rebels were determined to show that they could restore order and rule in Goma.
There were more scenes and chaotic reports on looting and rape near the confrontation line, as the M23 faces the Congolese army and its allies, including the Purondi forces.
The United Nations Refugee Agency expressed concern on Friday about the “rapid deteriorating” situation, saying that the war had left about 350,000 people displaced without any roof over their heads.
The involvement of the Burundian and Rwandan forces on the ground added fears that the fighting could turn into a regional conflict similar to two destroyed wars in the region between 1996 and 2003 costing millions of lives.
Reuters reported this week that South Africa had sent additional forces and military equipment to the Congo in recent days after 14 of its soldiers have been killed in the fight with M23 last month.
M23, which indicates March 23, 2009, which has ended a previous revolution led by Tutsi in the eastern Congo, is the latest group of rebels led by the ethnic tutts carrying weapons against Congolese forces.
The current rebellion was launched in 2022.
The group accused the Congo government of not raising until the peace agreement and the integration of Congolese Tutsi in the army and administration.
It also undertakes to defend the interests of Tutsi, especially against the Ethnic Huto militias, such as the democratic forces of the liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
FDLR was founded by Hotos who escaped from Rwanda after his participation in the 1994 collective genocide that killed nearly one million Totsis and moderate Hosteos.
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For more than a year, the M23 was controlling the Kulatan Kolatan area in Robia, generating an estimated $ 800,000 per month through production tax, according to the United Nations.
College is used in the production of smartphones and other equipment.
Analysts say that the group that is spreading in new regions in recent weeks gives it room to gain more mining revenues.
The vast metal reserves in the Congo, which are concentrated in the East, are also playing in the conflict.
CONGO is the best product in the world for Tantalum and Cobalt, a major component in batteries for electric cars and mobile phones. It is also the third global copper producer and the homeland of the colic, lehium, tin, tingstin, tanalum and gold.
Nevertheless, the Congo is the most reliable country in the world.
Humanitarian operations were funded last year by 70 percent from Washington, I took a big blow Since US President Donald Trump has imposed an outgoing aid last month.
The Congo government, United Nations and Western authorities, including the United States, accused Rwanda in Congo of feeding the conflict by deploying thousands of its heavy forces and weapons on the Congolese lands to support the M23.
The accusations are based on the 2022 report by a group of United Nations experts who said it was “strong evidence” that the Rwandan forces were fighting alongside the M23 rebels.
The government of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, which denies the support of the rebels, says it has taken what it calls defensive measures and accuses the Congo of fighting alongside FDLR, who attacked Tutsi in both countries.
Rwanda has a long history of military intervention within the Congo.
In 1996 and 1998, the Information Technology Authority and Uganda invaded, claiming that they were defending themselves against local militia groups and pursuing the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
African leaders have tried to press for negotiations to defuse the crisis, but so far they have not made much progress.
The joint summit of the East and South African blocs urged at the end of last week all parties, including M23, to hold direct talks.
The government has repeatedly refused to speak directly to the M23.
“For us is a terrorist organization, and we are not talking to terrorist organizations,” President Felix Chesikde said at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
The crisis was expected to be a prominent element at the annual Summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa on February 15-6.
TSHISECEDI was planning to attend, but a spokesperson for a presidential on Friday that he would fly from Germany to Kinshasa and that the Prime Minister of the Congo will represent the Congo at the top instead.
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The United Nations peacekeeping forces support the efforts of the Congolese army to reduce the M23 as part of the task of stabilizing the United Nations in the state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Monusco) years ago to confront many active rebel groups in the eastern Congo.
The agreed withdrawal of the mission from the Congo was stopped last year due to the deterioration of the security situation.
As of December, there were approximately 11,000 peacekeepers on the ground, most of them in the east.
Since the fall of Goma, the mission has evacuated some of its employees and families.
Its base has received a large number of people looking for a shelter, including government officials, army and various elements, including the Wazalendo militia fighters who support the government who surrendered their arms.
The 16 -member African Southern Development Society, which extended its military mission in the Congo in late last year to help the Congolese army fight the rebels, but has suffered losses since the beginning of 2025.
The private military contractors also surrendered by the Congolese government to help fight the M23 and train the forces.
The Burundian forces help the Congo fight M23.
The Burundi government has sent thousands of soldiers, who are now concentrated in southern Kivu.
They were among the forces defending Kavomo Airport before its fall.
