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| Mortar Shells From Rwanda Kill Civilians in Eastern Congo | |
Congo News Agency - August 23, 2013 | |
 | M23 rebels and their allies in Rwanda deliberately shelled civilians neighborhoods in Goma on Thursday, Congolese government spokesman Lambert Mende said on Friday during a press conference in Kinshasa. One woman and her three children were killed when mortar shells hit civilian neighborhoods in the eastern Congo city. |
| Dozens of M23 Rebels Killed by Congo Army in Renewed Fighting | |
Radio Okapi - August 22, 2013 | |
 | Dozens of M23 rebels have been killed and twelve others captured since Wednesday during renewed fighting between the rebels and the Congolese Armed Forces, known as FARDC. According to military sources in the area, the FARDC also recovered three heavy weapons during these clashes. |
| UN Peacekeepers Start Enforcing Security Zone in Eastern Congo | |
Radio Okapi - August 1, 2013 | |
 | A 48-hour ultimatum given by the UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo to armed groups around Goma and Sake to disarm or be disarmed expired on Thursday. The spokesman for the UN mission said the security zone will be enforced to secure more than one million people, including displaced people living in the area. |
| Rwanda 'recruiting for M23 rebels' | |
BBC News - July 31, 2013 | |
 | Four Rwandans have told the BBC the army forcibly recruited them to fight for the M23 rebel group in neighbouring eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The four said they were seeking asylum in Uganda after fleeing the fighting. |
| UN mission sets up security zone in eastern DR Congo, gives rebels 48 hour ultimatum | |
UN News Centre - July 30, 2013 | |
 | The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo announced that it will, for the first time, use its intervention brigade to enforce a security zone around the flashpoint city of Goma in the eastern part of the country, giving rebels 48 hours to disarm. |
| M23 Arrests 110 People Accusing Rebels of Looting At Rally | |
Robert Esaki - July 27, 2013 | |
 | In what looks like increasing acts of desperation and paranoia, the M23 rebels ordered people to attend a rally in Rutshuru, but what should have been a pro-rebel rally turned instead into a protest when people accused the rebels of looting, among other abuses. |
| DR Congo Asks Rwanda to Turn Over M23 Rebel Leaders | |
Congo News Agency - July 26, 2013 | |
 | DR Congo’s government said on Friday it has sent three international arrest warrants to Rwanda against former M23 rebel leader Jean-Marie Runiga and commanders Baudouin Ngaruye, Eric Badege and Innocent Zimurinda. |
| UN Security Council debate focuses on peace efforts for Africa's Great Lakes region | |
UN News Centre - July 25, 2013 | |
 | The Security Council today restated its commitment to the United Nations-brokered peace accord for Africa’s strife-torn Great Lakes region and demanded an immediate end to hostilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| M23 Rebels Said to Flee Rumangabo After Congo Army Airstrikes | |
Congo News Agency - July 25, 2013 | |
 | The M23 rebels are said to have fled from one of their biggest military base in North Kivu province and eastern Congo. The military base at Rumangabo was shelled on Wednesday by Congolese army attack helicopters, which are said to have inflicted heavy losses to the M23 rebels. |
| Congo Army Strikes M23 Rebels Base At Rumangabo | |
Robert Esaki - July 24, 2013 | |
 | The Congolese army hit deep into M23 rebels’ territory on Wednesday as three attack helicopters bombed the strategic military base at Rumangabo, located 50 kilometers north of Goma, and one of the biggest M23 bases in the region. |
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