Frontline OSINT and HUMINT report: Fighting erupts between young people Wazalendo and M23 reported in Bweremana in Masisi territory this monday.

 Fights between young people Wazalendo and M23 reported in Bweremana in Masisi territory. Our intelligence sources on site affirm that the M23 attacked several Wazalendo positions since 4 a.m. "They attacked hills overlooking Bweremana, Ndumba towards the Kashingamutwe part. We retaliated and the clashes continue because the enemy wants to overflow, because its mission is to take advantage of this lull", declared a Wazalendo commander who is in The area.

According to reports from civilians ,Clashes also concetrarted in Kamonyi, Butumbalonge and Bifura in the Bashali Mukoto group in Masisi territory. Heavy and light weapons have been heard since 4 a.m. On Sunday, other clashes between the M23 and a group from Wazalendo were reported in Kirumba, in violation of the humanitarian truce.

In the morning of today, a bomb that fell in Bweremana (North Kivu) killed at least 3 civilians, report several local sources. This projectile was launched from the combat zone between the M23 rebellion and the Congolese army and its allies from local armed groups.

(photo of a mother carrying a young baby hit by the bomb)

These fights are taking place on several fronts in Masisi territory, regret several sources on the ground, condemning these attacks which violate the two-week humanitarian truce, which is this Monday at its 10th day.

The clashes are taking place in particular in the Bashali chiefdom and in the vicinity of Bweremana, the Bahunde chiefdom. It was between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. that the M23 rebels launched these simultaneous attacks on the positions of the Congolese army and those of local armed groups in Masisi territory, according to concordant sources. In the Bahunde chiefdom, detonations of heavy weapons were heard between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. local time around the Ndumba-Kiluku-Kihindo-Kashingamutwe hills, overlooking the Bweremana-Shasha axis. At around 8 a.m., a bomb dropped from this area of fighting fell on civilian houses in Bweremana, killing 3 people, all children from the same family. Another was injured. Other fighting is also reported on the Kahira, Kirumbu-Lwama and Kalonge axes, in the Bashali Mokoto and Bashali Kaembe groups. In these areas, Radio Okapi's sources indicate that the rebels would have burned down the houses of some targeted people in the morning, particularly in the village of Butumbalonge. Hundreds of residents are currently on the run. They left this area in the direction of the Bafuna group towards Masisi center, local sources attest.