United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has referred to as on Rwandan forces to withdraw from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and halt help for M23 fighters advancing on the important thing metropolis of Goma within the nation’s east.
Guterres “reiterates his strongest condemnation of the M23 armed group’s ongoing offensive and advances in direction of Goma in North Kivu with the help of the Rwanda Defence Forces,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated in a press release on Sunday.
The DRC and the UN accuse Rwanda of backing the M23 (March 23 Motion) rebels, an accusation that Kigali denies.
At an emergency UN Safety Council assembly afterward Sunday, the DRC demanded sanctions in opposition to Rwanda, saying its forces had crossed into its territory in what amounted to a “declaration of warfare.”
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo studies from the UN.
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