M23 accusing FARDC?

 

This is what FARDC is saying

 

Civilians in North kivu call the president to reinforce the army

 

Minova and kalungu taken by M23, Fighting intensifies to take over. Nyabibwe .

The M23 rebels conquered the city of Minova (Kalehe territory) in South Kivu on Monday, January 20, after intense fighting on the last hills of the Masisi territory in neighboring North Kivu. Minova is the first major entity in South Kivu to be occupied by the M23.

According to intelligence information collected by our agent on mission in the area, the rebels entered Minova in the evening. This Tuesday morning, they deployed in several places in the city and its surroundings to consolidate their presence.

"They have already taken all the positions formerly occupied by the FARDC and the wazalendo, where there were support weapons like Katale, Katyazo and all the hills overlooking Minova to have control over Lake Kivu. They have also gone around Kasunyu, a route that opens towards Goma and Rwanda", explained the local civilians who talked to our agent.

According to our agent, the rebels are heading towards Kalungu, 7 kilometers from Minova with the option of reaching Nyabibwe where there are mining sites. This axis also leads to Kavumu where the airport is located.

In Minova as everywhere else where they have conquered entities, the M23 rebels held a meeting this morning. "They said that schools will be able to open in 48 hours, promised that the RN2 Minova-Bweremana-Sake-Goma will be reopened", indicates our agent who attended the meeting.

The arrival of the M23 in Minova is not without consequences. Since Monday, the prices of basic necessities have increased. Thousands of displaced people from Masisi who were already living in the area have had to flee again.

"There are families of displaced people who were identified, more than 700,000 since last February in the Buzi group from Masisi, Rutshuru, and those receiving Minova are all becoming displaced people and heading towards Goma via Kitembo and Nzulo. Hunger could affect a large number of people," alerted the  humanitarians in the area.

The M23 has been trying to break through South Kivu for several days. After months of clashes with the army and the Wazalendo militia, the rebels managed to conquer the mining town of Lumbishi in South Kivu last weekend. The m23 have already taken kalungu.Currently, the fighting is getting to nyabibwe an the FARDC apparently demoralized are beginning to vacate nyabibwe.

According to our other agents around the borders ,none knows the next move the M23 is going to take or which town or entity they will attack and take over.But reality on the ground reveals increasing reinforcements in both human and war materials .

Colonel Rugabisha Alex of FARDC betrayed his soldiersonn the Frontlines in kalehe

 Alot  of critiques claim that a colonel in the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo who has just ended the lives of 20 FARDC soldiers by handing them over to his aggressor brothers M23RDF on the NGUNGU-MINOVA section this January 20, 2025.

On the NGUNGU, MINOVA, KABALEGASHA, LUMBISHI, NUMBI and SHANJE axis in South Kivu, Kalehe territory, Alex is the second traitor who betrayed the Congolese army at the front.

Many soldiers died because of this claimed  traitor.

However, many analysts on military issues refer to this as a form of disinformation to break the cohesion within FARDC.

M23-AFC Corneille Nangaa's property put on public auction

 

M23 planning to suffocate GOMA and probably force Kinshasha to negotiate!

 

The war waged by M23 in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo is increasingly taking on another aspect, and is gradually reaffirming all the notes taken up by the United Nations experts in their various reports. From a war of aggression to an economic war, Rwanda seems to no longer have the means to camouflage its unfortunate shenanigans, which have pushed millions of citizens to flee their natural environments, many lives having also been lost.

After eight months of controlling the city of Ngungu, the M23 rebels were dislodged from this strategic entity in the Masisi territory by the Congolese army supported by young volunteers for the defense of the homeland called Wazalendo and some units of the Burundian army who intervene in the DRC within the framework of bilateral relations between the two countries.

This recapture of Ngungu, which came after those of the villages of Kamatale, Luizi, Ruzirantaka, Kabingo and Kasake, only lasted ten days, casting doubt on the hopes of progress of these forces fighting for the DRC, who were nevertheless preparing to launch attacks on the mining city of Rubaya that the M23 is protecting at all costs.

By retaking Ngungu, the RDF-M23 coalition subsequently succeeded in breaking through the wall of resistance to the point of crossing the borders of the neighboring province of South Kivu.

Ngungu, the misfortune of Lumbishi

The fall of the city of Ngungu negatively affected the morale of the soldiers engaged on the front lines, to the point of allowing the RDF and M23 to advance in Kasake, as far as the locality of Lumbishi in the territory of Kalehe in South Kivu.

"We were surprised to see the enemy approaching Lumbishi so quickly when we thought the threat was still very far from our village. We cannot understand how the rebels ended up here, yet the FARDC, the Wazalendo and the Burundian soldiers are still near Kamatale, Kabingo, Ruzirantaka," Saying , the residents of Lumbishi who were  fleeing.

The funnel theory to suffocate Goma and extend the plundering of minerals

This dizzying progression of the Rwandan army and the M23 rebels would aim not only to further suffocate the city of Goma, already surrounded from Kibumba to Sake, but also to push Kinshasa to negotiate directly with the "M23 terrorists", a condition that Kinshasa has always rejected.

In front of ambassadors and representatives of international organizations, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, recently reiterated his clear position of never considering direct dialogue with the M23. He specified that he did not intend to give in to any international pressure to dialogue with a group that he describes as "terrorist."

The advance of the M23-RDF army in the territory of Kalehe, in the province of South Kivu, is a godsend for Rwanda and its ally to extend their zone of plundering of natural resources, believes Mupenzi Mvuyekure, a notable of Kalehe.

The villages of Lumbishi and Shanje, occupied by the rebels since last weekend, are rich in raw materials such as tourmaline, coltan, cassiterite, gold and several others.

The mining town of Numbi also came under the control of the Rwandan army and M23 this evening, while several other credible sources claim that the M23 rebels intend to continue the conquest of the village of Nyabibwe in South Kivu province, whose subsoil is full of resources such as gold, coltan, manganese, cassiterite and tourmaline.

To achieve this, the M23 army simultaneously launched attacks on Monday, January 20 against FARDC positions on all axes that could lead them to the town of Minova, the only food supply route to the city of Goma, which remains under the control of the Congolese army. Population movements have been observed there since the early hours of the day, despite assurances from the Congolese military authorities. The latest information in the area is that the villages of Bitaata, Bitonga, Buyaga and Bishange have come under the control of the  M23.

This progression of the M23, supported by Rwanda, worries the populations living around Lake Kivu, who are calling on the Congolese government to redouble its efforts to definitively put an end to these conflicts.

In an official tweet, the Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs reacted to President Tshisekedi's position of not engaging in direct dialogue with the M23, while remaining open to continuing the Luanda process. Olivier Nduhungirehe writes: "And yet, the Luanda process can never resume and succeed without a firm commitment from the Democratic Republic of Congo to engage directly with the AFC-M23."