News | M23
| UN Security Council Condemns Latest M23 Attacks, Extends Sanctions on Rebels | |
UN News Centre - November 28, 2012 | |
 | The Security Council extended the arms embargo and other sanctions imposed against armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while expressing its intention to consider additional targeted sanctions against the leadership of the M23, the rebel fighters that recently occupied the eastern provincial capital of Goma. |
| The M23 Rebels Want to Overthrow Kabila? Nonsense | |
Congo News Agency - November 28, 2012 | |
 | The M23 rebels say they want to “liberate” DR Congo. They say they will take their fight thousands of miles westward to the capital Kinshasa if necessary. The M23 want to overthrow Kabila? Nonsense. It could be argued that Rwanda and Uganda have never had, and will likely never have, a better friend in power in Kinshasa than Mr. Kabila. |
| Thousands of Women March Against M23 Rebels in Kinshasa | |
Congo News Agency - November 24, 2012 | |
 | Thousands of women protested against the M23 rebels in Kinshasa on Friday in the biggest demonstration yet in DR Congo’s capital against the rebels’ capture of the eastern Congo city of Goma on Tuesday. Women took the streets to condemn the M23 rebels, and the failure of the Congolese army and United Nations peacekeepers to stop the rebels’ advance. |
| Protests Against M23 Rebels, Government and UN Spread | |
Congo News Agency - November 22, 2012 | |
 | Protests against the M23 spread to South Kivu province on Wednesday as thousands of residents took to the streets in Bukavu to vent their fury after the fall of Goma to the rebels on Tuesday. The protests in Bukavu mirror those that took place on Tuesday in Kisangani and Bunia in which the M23, the PPRD and MONUSCO were the targets. |
| Thousands Protest M23 Capture of Goma, Turn on Government and UN | |
Congo News Agency - November 21, 2012 | |
 | Thousands of students protested on Tuesday after M23 rebels seized the eastern Congo city of Goma. They were mostly expressing their furor at the M23 rebels, but also targeted the government and the United Nations mission in DR Congo, whose soldiers and peacekeepers were unable to stop the rebels from taking the city. |
| DR Congo Will Not Negotiate With M23 Rebels, Government Says | |
Congo News Agency - November 19, 2012 | |
 | M23 rebels claimed on Monday they were retreating from the outskirts of the eastern Congo city of Goma to give negotiations a chance after issuing a 24-hour ultimatum to the government. The government did not waste any time to respond. The Congolese government said on Monday it will not negotiate with the M23 rebels. |
| DR Congo Officials Vow to Defend Goma Against M23 Rebels | |
Congo News Agency - November 19, 2012 | |
 | North Kivu province Governor Julien Paluku has reassured residents of the eastern Congo city of Goma that it remains under the control of the Congolese army. He dismissed rumors that top government and military officials have fled towards Bukavu, in South Kivu province. Military officials in Goma vowed to defend the city against an attack by M23 rebels. |
| U.S. Treasury Department Sanctions M23 Rebel Leader | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury - November 13, 2012 | |
 | "Sultani Makenga is responsible for extensive atrocities against the population in the DRC, including the recruitment of child soldiers, and campaigns of violence against civilians," said Adam J. Szubin, the Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. |
| UN Security Council condemns 'any and all outside support' to M23 rebels | |
UN News Centre - October 19, 2012 | |
 | “The Security Council calls upon all countries in the region to condemn the M23, as well as other armed groups, and to cooperate actively with the Congolese authorities in disarming and demobilizing the M23 as well as other armed groups and dismantling the M23 parallel administration,” said in a presidential statement. |
| At high-level meeting, Ban urges political solution to crisis in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News Service - September 27, 2012 | |
 | Stressing the need to end the suffering caused by the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has uprooted over 300,000 civilians since earlier this year, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an urgent and peaceful resolution based on dialogue. |
