This monday ,there was intensification of the fights between FARDC and M23 in Nyiragongo and Masisi . Violent fighting continued this Monday between the FARDC and the rebels M23 north of the territory of Nyiragongo , about twenty kilometers north of Goma , say several sources. The clashes rage in the region for several weeks. By 1 PM the Congolese army had just defeated a new attempt by M23 , which was trying to advance towards the city of Goma. The rebels attempted to infiltrate behind a position FARDC at Kanyamahoro without success.
The ceasefire was also violated in the same region where the army and the M23 clashed last week. Furthermore, in Masisi, more precisely in Burungu, near the town of Kitshanga, there has been a relative calm since the evening of Sunday, after intense fighting between the Wazalendo and the M23. By 5Pm (East African time)a lul was observed on the Nyiragongo front line, after the rebels of M23_RDF are pushed back to their old positions in the Buhumba grouping.
Claims say thay Some soldiers operating under the M23 label tried to overflow towards Kanyanza to approach kibati , but were repelled by the Congolese army, according to information from the front line.
The state of mind of the population in the territory of Nyiragongo appears calm, following the deployment on the front line of young soldiers coming fresh from training, to defend their homeland.
.On front line now seems to be calm,with M23 top brass in thorough preparations with utmosts sounding vows to continue defending the people in the areas they captured.M23 has vowed not to back down despite the recent signed co-miltary operation between FARDC and MUNUSCO,military operation which has be termed "operation springbok". From,their words,M23 has vowed to take control of Nyiragongo and fight for the freedoms of the civilians whom they claimed are maimed by the wazalendo forces.
A non Gorvenmental humanitarian organisation (LUCHA) has announced a sit-in strike in front of the office of the military governor of North Kivu on Wednesday, Nov. 8 to demand the departure of the MONUSCO and the regional force of the EAC,and most of its member pointing fingers at the Uganda forces claiming it sympathises and cohabits with M23. These young people from lucha also want to take advantage of this opportunity to ask the FARDC to launch, “immediately the offensives against the terrorists of M23 ”. A demonstration announced while the Monusco and the Congolese army have just launched an operation called "Springbok" to counter the M23 with the first images of this FARDC-MONUSCO operation against the M23 and UN peacekeepers positioned in Kimoka, in the territory of Masisi.
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