Tuesday, February 26, 2013

M23's Makenga and Runiga factions 'clash'


Col Sultani Makenga photographed in July 2012
The abandon was affiliated to a power-struggle amid M23 political baton Jean-Marie Runiga and aggressive arch Sultani Makenga, the sources said.

On Sunday, bounded leaders active a UN-brokered accordance to end battle in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

About 80,000 humans accept been displaced in angry aback May 2012.

The M23 launched a apostasy adjoin the DR Congo government, briefly abduction Goma, the capital city-limits in the east, in November.

Both Rwanda and Uganda acerb abjure claims they aback the rebels.

The BBC's Ignatius Bahizi letters from neighbouring Uganda that the battling M23 factions exchanged battery in the boondocks of Rutshuru, 70km (43 miles) arctic of Goma.

The M23 denied that it was hit by dissent, our anchorman says.

It abhorrent the abandon on the FDLR insubordinate group, which is fabricated up of Rwandans accused of captivation in the 1994 genocide that larboard about 800,000 humans dead, he says.

The M23 is complex in abstracted accordance talks with the DR Congo government in Uganda.

In January, it declared a unilateral ceasefire.

In Ethiopia on Sunday, the leaders and assembly of 11 African countries active an accord, alliance to advice end the battle in DR Congo.

The accord was active in the attendance of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

"It is alone the alpha of a absolute access that will crave abiding engagement," Mr Ban said.

The region's mineral abundance accept been plundered by abundant armed groups and countries over the accomplished 15 years, while a lot of Congolese humans abide mired in poverty.


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