The UN Fears that the Situation in Congo is Getting Worse

Despite the unilateral ceasefire they announced earlier this week, Rwandan-backed rebels continued to advance in eastern Congo on Wednesday, seizing a city 60 miles (96 kilometres) from the province capital of Bukavu, residents and civil society officials told the media.

Speaking from Goma, the deputy head of the U.N. mission there stated that there is still a constant potential of escalation and that the situation is extremely unstable. Following appeals for the safe transportation of aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians, the M23 rebels declared a truce on humanitarian grounds on Monday.

However, the UN has reported intense combat with Congolese soldiers in the mineral-rich area, and Congo’s government has called the ceasefire “false communication.”

The rebels were said to be advancing on Bukavu and gaining ground in other parts of eastern Congo after taking over Goma, a provincial capital with a population of two million and located in the centre of a region with natural wealth worth trillions of dollars.

Although they had previously stated their desire to march on Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, which is a thousand miles away, the rebels stated on Monday that they had no plans to take control of Bukavu or other regions.

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