After the earthquake, Sarah Kasigwa, like an estimated 2000 others, was left homeless and terrified. “Mother, 29, claims she witnessed a lot of bodies.
” After my family was destroyed, including my husband and two children, I was left with nothing. In this school, we’re all sleeping on the ground. We’re suffocating since there’s nothing to defend us but cement.”
MONUSCO blue helmets were dispatched in reaction to the attack on Friday.
The incident occurred near Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famed for its high gorilla population.
The M23, also known as the ” Revolutionary Army of Congo, ” is a former Congolese rebel group backed by neighboring states.
North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), saw an armed conflict between the March 23 Movement and government forces during the M23 rebellion in 2013.
A series of armed conflicts erupted after the Second Congo War officially ended in 2003. When a peace agreement was reached among eleven African countries and the M23 troops surrendered in Uganda in 2013, the conflict was over.
Ex- National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) soldiers mutinied against the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the UN peacekeeping contingent in April 2012. (MONUSCO).
The March 23 Movement (M23), also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army, was formed by mutinous insurgents. It was made up of former CNDP rebels and sponsored, according to reports, by the governments of Rwanda’ s neighboring states.
It was on November 20, 2012, that M23 rebels stormed the provincial capital of Goma, which has a population of one million.
[16] It was estimated that more than 140, 000 people had been forced to flee their homes by the end of November of that year, in addition to those who had been displaced by previous rounds of fighting in the area.
[17] M23 agreed to withdraw from Goma on their own and left the city in early December after repelling a poorly organized government counterattack and making some further gains.
An agreement to bring peace to Africa was signed by eleven countries on February 24, 2013.
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