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Tshisekedi Denies M23 Claims of Withdrawal from Uvira
(MENAFN) Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has refuted assertions by the M23 rebel movement that its fighters have fully retreated from Uvira, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) captured earlier this month.
Speaking on Sunday at a regional summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), Tshisekedi addressed the worsening security crisis in the country.
“The alleged withdrawal of AFC/M23 from Uvira corresponds neither to the facts nor to field observations,” he stated, according to a message shared by his office on social media.
M23 forces took control of the strategically important city on Lake Tanganyika, near the Burundi border, on December 10. This occurred just days after Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame signed an agreement in Washington intended to end decades of armed conflict in DR Congo’s resource-rich east.
The previous week, Corneille Nangaa, head of the rebel coalition Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes M23, declared that the group “will unilaterally withdraw its forces from the city of Uvira as per the United States mediation’s request.”
Speaking on Sunday at a regional summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), Tshisekedi addressed the worsening security crisis in the country.
“The alleged withdrawal of AFC/M23 from Uvira corresponds neither to the facts nor to field observations,” he stated, according to a message shared by his office on social media.
M23 forces took control of the strategically important city on Lake Tanganyika, near the Burundi border, on December 10. This occurred just days after Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame signed an agreement in Washington intended to end decades of armed conflict in DR Congo’s resource-rich east.
The previous week, Corneille Nangaa, head of the rebel coalition Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes M23, declared that the group “will unilaterally withdraw its forces from the city of Uvira as per the United States mediation’s request.”
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