Kanyabayonga people flee,as youth is Lubero gets sensitized in readiness to join the offensive against the M23

 According to sources, the locality of Kanyabayonga was emptied of its population after army shooting yesterday Friday. The population fears an attack by the M23 rebels who have conquered villages to the south of this rural area located after 170 km north of

Butembo on the Butembo-Goma axis. Since Thursday, residents have been moving and heading towards Kayna, others to Kirumba and Kaseghe, localities located in the direction of Butembo. These residents are taking shelter following the incidents that occurred on the day of yesterday Friday. After a Thursday night agitated by psychosis following the movement of soldiers coming from the front line, the residents panicked because the Fardc soldiers fired bullets between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. an act which panicked many residents who believed in the rebels entered the city and immediately began to empty the locality. Until Friday, sources confirmed that the FARDC controls Kanyabayonga. The situation remains volatile, several human rights activists have abandoned this entity which provides access to the Far North from the territory of Lubéro. Like other inhabitants, they too feared the progression of the M23 who remain positioned around Butalongola, a village located in a groupement Kanyabayonga, Bwito chiefdom. Given the worrying situation in North Kivu, the youth of Libero are mobilizing together to face the Rwandan army and asking the population to remain calm, not abandoning the city to finally fight together with the FARDC.