DR CONGO M23 fighters seize mining town
Fighters from the Rwanda-backed M23 movement seized control of a key mining settlement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, their latest advance in the country’s war-torn east, local sources said on Sunday. Residents told AFP by telephone that the armed group took control of Lumbishi, a mineral-rich site in the Sud-Kivu region, around 1530 GMT […]
Fighters from the Rwanda-backed M23 movement seized control of a key mining settlement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, their latest advance in the country’s war-torn east, local sources said on Sunday.
Residents told AFP by telephone that the armed group took control of Lumbishi, a mineral-rich site in the Sud-Kivu region, around 1530 GMT on Saturday.
From there they were progressing towards Numbi and Shanje, two other locations in the surrounding Kalehe territory, sources said.
“Since this morning there has been fighting against the enemy in Kalehe,” said a security source who asked not to be named on Sunday.
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M23, or the “Movement of March 23”, is backed by Kigali and aided by Rwandan troops.
Since 2021 it has occupied wide swathes of the mineral-rich east of the DRC.