M23 rebel group captures at least eight villages in eastern DR Congo following clashes with government soldiers as fighting drives thousands to leave the region, local sources say
Rebels from the M23 group have captured several villages in eastern DR Congo following clashes with government troops in the Rutshuru region, local sources have said.
Government troops held Bunagana and the Rwanguba bridge, he told AFP, but locals had already fled across the border to Uganda or to neighbouring regions inside DR Congo.Over a dozen killed in rebel attack in eastern CongoFighting between the rebels and soldiers flared up on Wednesday after several days of calm. The earlier clashes had already led tens of thousands of people to flee the region.
The rebels had been incorporated into the Congolese army under a peace deal signed on March 23, 2009. Becoming one of the scores of armed groups that roam eastern DR Congo, M23 briefly seized the city of Goma before being defeated and forced out of the country.
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