M23 has been carrying on massive recruits from the population, Colonel BYAMUNGU "Tega One" is recruiting young people in RUBAYA to strengthen the AFC,he is a former RCD, CNDP, M23, he was removed from the FARDC in 2013, arrested and sent to NDOLO prison and sentenced to life imprisonment but pardoned and released in 2019 by Félix Tshilombo.M23 is not only getting recruits from DRC alone,many kinywanda speaking youth are being recruited from all over the region and many are eager to join the M23 because o the PR and the more the M23 war continues ,the more famous the m23 gets and the ease with which it has to recruit from the kinyarwanda speaking population in the region.There is no doubt,m23 has funds,support and unknown politicatical and international shoulder on which it leans.
Another intense fighting sparked of around 1:30 AM this Wednesday, May 8, 2024, combat with heavy and light weapons between the "M23 supported by Rwanda" and the Wazalendo on the one hand, and on the other hand the FARDC, have been reported in hills which overlook the city of Sake in particular Ngumba, rutoboko and towards the antennas. Some mortars dropped by the rebels were raching in Kimoka and Sake center.The M23/AFC coalition once again attempted to conquer the city of Sake. It is a member of the Territorial Council of Masisi who delivers this information to our sources on site. “We have been expecting loud detonations since 1 a.m. this Wednesday. The M23 seeks to take the city of Saké. The fighting is taking place around Vunano, Mwambaliro and Lutobogo and on Kiuli hill near the city of sake in the territory of Masisi, in North Kivu,” explains Kibanja Héritier, member of the Territorial Council of Masisi. Military sources say that at 3 a.m., M23 rebels attempted to overflow from the Kanve side to go directly to Butimbika, one of the notables of the Matcha locality. They were repulsed by the Congolese army. For the moment, and crushes were taken to Lutobogo and Vunano and around the strategic hill of Kihuli, still near Saké.
The War against the terrorists (M23)of the Rwandan army is changing in nature, the days promise to be very difficult for the Rwandan army The FARDC and SADC have launched an offensive to liberate the Congolese territories from Kagame's terrorists .As FARDC chief Gen Tshiwewe visited this evening,The Aiglons Battalion of the FARDC Retained to lead offensives with SADC troops against terrorists RDF_M23 The Chief of Staff gave instructions for the complete neutralization of the Rwandan army operating in the DRC.From Kasindi Lubiriha in the Beni territory in North Kivu, where he assessed with his Ugandan counterpart the Shujja operation, the Chief of General Staff of the FARDC who arrived in Lubumbashi in Haut-Katanga last Monday evening, spoke on Tuesday 7 May 2024, with the soldiers of the second battalion of the "eaglets" brigade, stationed in the Baya village, having to fight alongside the SADC and SAMIRDC troops, from whom he asked for harmonious cohabitation in order to track down the M23 rebels, acting under the cover of Rwanda, until their final entrenchment.
The Chief of General Staff of the FARDC Tshiwewe Songela Christian called on them for harmonious cohabitation with the SADC and SAMIRDC troops. "I came to visit you, also to encourage you. I told you that your battalion constituted a Stand-By unit. This is the unit which will carry out operations alongside the SADC and SAMIRDC troops. You you must prepare yourself because already, from this Wednesday or next Thursday, the movements should begin for you to join the SADC and SAMIRDC troops", he told the soldiers during a moral talk . General Tshiwewe Songela Christian insisted on cohabitation with the other aforementioned troops for this hunt to take place successfully. “While you are carrying out this operation, you must promote good cohabitation with your colleagues, among whom we find South Africans, Tanzanians and Malawians. You must not go there to act in the opposite direction. Don't go there and shoot at point blank range. You must apply yourself with discipline, as you do here. Don't take someone else's woman," he called out. The Chief of General Staff of the FARDC took this opportunity to draw their attention to the abusive use of social networks during these operations to track down the M23 rebels. This moral talk comes a few days after the Mugunga camp on the outskirts of the city of Goma in North Kivu was the target of M23 bombings.