29-10-2022 :The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday announced an increase in its troop alert level following deadly clashes with rebels in the east. United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, (MONUSCO) condemned the hostile acts of the M23 rebel group and called for an immediate halt to the fighting. The mission said it was providing air support, intelligence and equipment as well as medical assistance to the DRC’s army.
The peacekeepers said they were mobilized in support of the FARDC army that clashed this week with the M23 around a strategic highway, in which at least ten people have been killed since Sunday and dozens more injured.
MONUSCO said it had set up an operations coordination center with the army and was carrying out reconnaissance and surveillance flights, but did not provide further details about the alert level.
M23, a mostly Congolese Tutsi group, resumed fighting in late 2021 after lying dormant for years. It has since captured swathes of territory in North Kivu province, including the strategic town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border in June this year.