Protesters slam DRC President Kabila

July 19th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The protest was held on Thursday in the violence-hit city amid UN concerns about recent clashes in the area.

On July 14, heavy clashes broke out between the March 23 movement (M23) rebels and the Congolese army northeast of Goma, putting an end to several weeks of relative calm.

The military succeeded in pushing the rebels several kilometers further from the city after four days of battle and the front line was calm on Thursday.

During Thursday protests, police fired teargas at angry demonstrators to disperse them from the center of Goma, where they blocked roads and displayed a sign which read, Kabila Must Go.

Meanwhile, the press office of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that the UN chief was “deeply concerned about the latest round of hostilities initiated by the M23 movement north of Goma.”

The statement said the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is on high alert and ready to intervene “including through the Force Intervention Brigade, should the fighting threaten civilians, particularly in Goma and in IDP (internally displaced persons) camps,” referring to a new kind of peacekeeping force the UN is now dispatching.

The 3,000-strong Intervention Brigade, which has a tough mandate to take on rebel groups to end the decades-old conflict in Congo’s resource-rich east, has started patrols but has not yet entered into combat.

The M23 rebels seized Goma on November 20, 2012 after UN peacekeepers gave up the battle for the city, which is home to about one million people. The rebels withdrew from the city on December 1 under a ceasefire accord.

Several armed groups, including the M23 rebels, are active in eastern Congo and are fighting for control of the country’s vast mineral resources, such as gold, the main tin ore cassiterite, and coltan (columbite-tantalite), which is used to make many electronic devices, including cell phones.

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