Kigali, November 9th 2023 To:    * The President of the United States of America, His Excellency Joe Biden * The President of France, His Excellency Emmanuel Macron * The Prime Minister of Belgium, His Excellency Alexander De Croo * Antony Blinken, Secretary of State – USA * António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations * The Presidency

Comme nous l'avons déjà signalé la semaine dernière, la ville de Goma est désormais 'de facto' encerclée par le M23. Les rebelles ont repoussé les FARDC vers Sake et Munigi-Kibati. La route vers Bukavu et Minova est ouverte. Le général Makenga pourrait facilement entrer à Goma

As we already reported last week the city of Goma is now ‘de facto’ surrounded by the M23. The rebels pushed back the FARDC towards Sake and Munigi-Kibati. The road towards Bukavu and Minova is left open. General Makenga could easily walk into Goma with his men but that is

Le M23 encercle désormais de facto Goma et n'autorise l'accès à la ville que par voie aérienne, par bateau et par la route de sortie vers Bukavu et Minova. La coalition FARDC-FDLR a retiré son artillerie lourde à Munigi, juste à l'extérieur de la

The M23 is now de facto surrounding Goma and is only allowing access to the city by air, boat and via the exit road to Bukavu and Minova.  The FARDC-FDLR coalition has withdrawn its heavy artillery pieces to Munigi, just outside the city.  However, mobile M23 units are also present

Les événements dans la région de Kivu sont passés d'une rivière à fort courant à un rapide avec des cascades profondes et des courants dangereux. Personne n'avait pensé que la performance de Kinshasa sur le champ de bataille serait si prévisible et si faible, surtout après

The events in the Kivu’s passed from a fast-flowing river into a rapid with deep waterfalls and dangerous currents. And it might flood a whole region and cause a lot of damage. Nobody had thought that Kinshasa’s performance on the battle field would have been so predictable and

Les combats entre le M23 et la coalition FARDC-Wazalendo-FDLR-Nyatura et mercenaires ont été intenses ces dernières semaines : le M23 a dû abandonner ses positions près de Kitchanga et Kilolirwe, mais ces derniers les ont arrêtés à Tongo et à Bwiza, où la coalition est tombée dans plusieurs embuscades soigneusement mises

The fighting between the M23 and the FARDC-Wazalendo-FDLR-Nyatura and mercenary coalition has been intense during the past weeks: the M23 had to give up its positions near Kitchanga and Kilolirwe but the latter stopped them in Tongo and in Bwiza where the coalition ran into several neatly set up kill

Yesterday, we published our first findings about our recent visit to the M23 zone in North-Kivu. We handed our microphones to the villagers, refugees, and M23 grunts to check what they think about the ongoing deadlock and the standoff between the M23 and the FARDC-FDLR coalition. Today we’ll focus