Who Are the Armed Groups Ravaging the East: DRC
The Security Council this week again demanded"that all external parties immediately cease their support" for M23.
The March 23 Movement was formed at the end of the Kivu war in 2009. Under a peace deal signed on 23 March of that year, rebels of Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the People were integrated into the Congolese army. Dissatisfied with the way in which the peace terms were administered, and refusing Kinshasa's attempts to disperse them to other parts of the DRC, the rebels mutinied, murdered their officers and took to the bush with weapons, vehicles and uniforms stolen from army stocks.
The group continues to control large swathes of North Kivu, and is probably financed by the illegal export of the region's raw materials - principally timber and minerals - to or through neighbouring Rwanda.This islamist-alligned militia was formed in Uganda in 1995 with a view to opposing then Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
A series of military defeats in the late 1990s forced group members out of Uganda's western Rwenzori mountains and into North Kivu, where their activities centred on the towns of Beni and Ituri.armed group in October 2017 and was listed as a terrorist organisation by the US administration.Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
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