- Rwanda's supported anti -government group M23 is fighting the Congo Government Army in Sesame, a major city in Congo, where he evacuates international airports.
- The M23 is an area with long -term conflicts in the area where minerals have created one of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, and is one of the 100 armed groups fighting for control.
- The United Nations Spokesman Stefan Dujaric, UN spokesman, urged the M23 to stop all hostile actions and to withdraw the units.
Sesame international airports are evacuated, and Rwanda's supported rebel forces and government forces are furious in major cities in the eastern Congo, killing at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers. Commercial flights evacuated on Sunday due to expulsion of thousands of citizens.
The M23 Rebellion Group has gained a lot of territorial benefits along the border with Rwanda in recent weeks, with a population of about 2 million, and in a regional hub, which is a regional hub for security and humanitarian efforts. It is trapped in a sesame.
The airport agent told the AP communication that the sesame international airport in the east of the city was evacuated by military and commercial flights and was temporarily contacted for battle. The agent talked about anonymously because he was not allowed to speak publicly.
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According to the internal email that AP saw, the United Nations did not go to the airport on Sunday to avoid evacuating to the prescribed position.
Congo, the United States, and UN experts accuse Rwanda that it supports M23. This is mainly composed of ethnic Tuuchi tribe away from the Congo army more than 10 years ago. This is one of the 100 armed groups in which long -term conflicts have created one of the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
The Rwanda government denied that it supports the rebels, but acknowledged that last year there was an army and a missile system in the eastern part of Congo, pointing out the accumulation of the Congo army near the border. UN experts estimate that the Congo has a maximum of 4,000 Rwanda army.
Following the battle between the M23 anti -government forces and the Democratic Republic of the Democratic Army, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Monusco) rides on a pickup track to secure the evacuation of non -essential UN staff, and the UN tissue stabilization mission on a pickup truck Member members on January 25, 2025, Congo in Goma, Kita Kibu, the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Reuters/Arret/Bassie TPX The image of the day)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Congo said that it was cutting diplomatic relations with Rwanda late on Saturdays and pulling out all the diplomatic staff of the country “immediately effectively”.
Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs Olivier Nuduunglehe told AP on Sunday that the decision to cut off bonds was a one -sided movement by Congo.
“For us, we have taken appropriate measures to evacuate the remaining diplomats of Kinshasa, which had been exposed to permanent threats by the officials of the Congo, this is the so -called notebook in this social media. It was achieved on Friday, one day before the issuance of Verbert. “
In the past 48 hours, two United Nations Peace Maintenance Army from South Africa and one of Uruguay have died, and 11 peacekeeping troops have been injured and hospitalized. Prior to the UN Security Council's emergency meeting, he said on Sunday.
With the support of the Rwanda Defense Force, the United Nations has repeatedly “repeated the” strongest blame “of the M23 attack,” calling for all hostile actions to the rebel group and withdrawing the army. , UN Spokesman Stephen Dujaric said.
On Sunday morning, fierce gunshots resonated all over a few miles from the forefront. The evacuated child and adult score fled from the largest Kanyalcinyi Camp in the eastern Congo near the Rwanda border and headed south.
“We are running away because Rwanda threw a bomb and fired a soldier, so we are running away,” said Safi Shanwe, who was heading for sesame.
“We are tired and we are afraid. Our children have the risk of being hungry,” she added.
After the battle between the M23 rebel forces in the sesame of the East Democratic Republic of Congo and the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, they carry a civilian who fled from Munii and Kibati camps. (Reuters/Aobin Mukoni)
Some of the evacuated people are worried that they will not be safe even sesame.
“I'm going to sesame, but I don't know where to go now because I heard a bomb in the sesame,” said Adel Simier.
Hundreds of people tried to escape to Rwanda through the “big barrier” border crossing the east of sesame on Sunday. The immigrant person checked the travel documents carefully.
“I'm going to the opposite side to see if there is a shelter. At the moment, the city's safety has not been guaranteed,” said Muahadi Amani, a resident of GOMA. 。
At the beginning of the week, the anti -government forces seized Japanese sake, 16 miles away from sesame.
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The Congo Army said on Saturday that he had attacked the M23 with the help of the UN forces and soldiers in the South African Community Mission, also known as Samidolk.
In addition to the two South African peacekeeping troops in South Africa, the South African Defense Defense has recently been killed by the recent Samidarco South African Army.
Since 2021, the Allies, including the Congo government, the Samidolk, and the UN forces, have kept the M23 from sesame. The United Nations Peace Maintenance Army has entered the Congo more than 20 years ago, with about 14,000 peacekeeping troops on the ground.
