{"id":6694,"date":"2025-02-17T01:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/m23-rebels-in-congo-say-they-have-entered-bukavu\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T01:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:07:37","slug":"m23-rebels-in-congo-say-they-have-entered-bukavu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/m23-rebels-in-congo-say-they-have-entered-bukavu\/","title":{"rendered":"M23 Rebels in Congo Say They Have Entered Bukavu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday entered the vital trading hub of Bukavu in the east of the country, according to the fighters and videos circulated by local residents. If confirmed, Bukavu would be the latest city to fall in a sweeping offensive that has revealed the weakness of the crumbling Congolese Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/world\/africa\/congo-m23-rwanda.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">M23 rebels<\/a> \u2014 who are supported and directed by Rwanda, Congo\u2019s much smaller neighbor \u2014 appeared to meet no resistance, residents said, as they marched into Bukavu, a provincial capital that is a major center for gold trading and smuggling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re there, we\u2019re there in Bukavu,\u201d said Willy Ngoma, a M23 spokesman reached by telephone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday, the rebels addressed a crowd of people in Bukavu\u2019s main square after they entered the city in long, silent columns, according to three witnesses and videos shared on social media and verified by The Times. The witnesses requested anonymity for fear of retribution from the armed group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Days earlier, Congolese soldiers had fled the city in similar columns, according to a dozen other residents, leaving Bukavu under no clear leadership and in the hands of looters who broke into warehouses and shops. The Congolese government has not spoken publicly about the situation in the city on Sunday, and the capture of Bukavu has not been independently confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The apparent fall of Bukavu would stand in sharp contrast to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/world\/africa\/congo-m23-rwanda-goma-burials.html\" title=\"\">protracted battle for the key city of Goma<\/a> last month, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With the capture of Bukavu, a city of more than a million people that sits on the edge of a crystalline lake, the M23 rebels would now control the two largest trading hubs in Congo\u2019s mineral-rich east.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Experts say Bukavu\u2019s capture threatens to draw more neighboring countries into the conflict. The city sits 20 miles from the border with Burundi, whose troops have been fighting alongside the Congolese Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt will increase the risk of regional war, especially with Burundi,\u201d Fred Bauma, the executive director of Ebuteli, a research group specializing on Congo, said about Bukavu\u2019s fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, M23 is also more directly connected to its powerful backer, Rwanda. Bukavu and Goma, on the southern and northern edges of the sprawling Lake Kivu, both sit on the border with Rwanda, whose exports of minerals smuggled out of Congo have spiked in recent years, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/documents.un.org\/doc\/undoc\/gen\/n24\/373\/37\/pdf\/n2437337.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">U.N. experts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has acknowledged that Rwandan soldiers are present in eastern Congo but has denied backing M23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The leaders of M23 have now vowed to march on Kinshasa, Congo\u2019s capital and one of Africa\u2019s largest cities. The Congolese government has refused to sit down with M23 leaders or Rwanda, and its military response on the ground has been limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">M23 is the most powerful of the dozens of armed groups that have destabilized eastern Congo over nearly three decades. Since capturing Goma, the rebels have vowed to restore order and security \u2014 attempting to present the group as an administrative power qualified enough to govern large parts of one of Africa\u2019s richest mining regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is important that we can work hand in hand for our country\u2019s development,\u201d Bernard Byamungu, a high-ranking M23 official, told Bukavu\u2019s residents on Sunday, according to a video verified by The Times. \u201cNo development without work, but let\u2019s not forget that peace remains fundamental for a stable nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Byamungu then ordered residents to go back home so M23 could finish securing the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The group\u2019s calls for peace have been at odds with M23\u2019s bloody tactics on the ground. M23 has repeatedly violated cease-fires, including some that it had unilaterally declared. Mr. Byamungu, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/main.un.org\/securitycouncil\/en\/content\/bernard-maheshe-byamungu\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the United Nations<\/a>, planned and directed the killings of civilians and the extrajudicial executions of soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike Goma, the apparent capture of Bukavu was hardly a surprise: Schools there closed earlier this month and countless people fled in recent weeks in anticipation of the M23 offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The M23 rebels entered Bukavu on Sunday days after they said they had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LawrenceKanyuka\/status\/1890373793983394123\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">captured<\/a> a nearby airport that the Congolese Army had used as a key rear base to try to contain the group\u2019s advance in the province of South Kivu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The latest M23 offensive, which began in early January, has further destabilized eastern Congo, a mineral-rich region scarred by nearly three decades of conflict over access to land and gold, tin and cobalt, among other minerals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 500,000 people were displaced last month, according to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/02\/1160031\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations<\/a>. The number of rapes against children carried out by armed groups, already rampant in the region, has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/world\/africa\/sexual-violence-children-congo.html\" title=\"\">soared in recent weeks<\/a>, according to UNICEF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Ruth Maclean<!-- --> contributed reporting from Dakar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br 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