Rebels have actually taken control of 2 significant towns in eastern Congo and doubled the area they hold after strong combating with the Congolese military Rebels have actually taken control of 2 significant towns in eastern Congo and doubled the area they hold after intense combating with the Congolese military Rebels took control of 2 significant towns in eastern Congo and doubled the area they hold after intense battling Saturday with the Congolese armed force, authorities stated. Congo’s federal government later on purchased the Rwandan ambassador, Vincent Karega, to leave the nation within 48 hours, responding to M23 rebels taking both Kiwanja and Rutshuru Centre near their shared border. Congo has actually consistently implicated Rwanda of backing the rebels, a claims Rwanda has actually consistently rejected. The choice by Congo’s high defense council to expel Karega was anticipated to even more ratchet up stress in between the 2 nations whose relations have actually been stuffed for years. The U.N. peacekeeping objective referred to as MONUSCO, on the other hand, stated 4 of its peacekeepers were injured in Kiwanja on Saturday alerting it would “strike back strongly” if there were “additional hostility versus its bases.” Strong combating appeared Saturday early morning in between the Congolese army and M23 rebels in Kiwanja, which is 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the local capital, Goma. John Banyene, president of the regional civil society, later on informed The Associated Press that the rebels now managed both Kiwanja and Rutshuru Centre. “As we speak, we verify that the M23 rebels and their allies manage the town of Kiwanja, however the militaries of the Democratic Republic of Congo are not quiting,” Banyene informed reporters in Goma. Daniel Subuka, a Kiwanja citizen called by telephone by AP, stated
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