{{The Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 Rebel movement threatened Saturday that it would recapture main City of Goma if Kinshasa government fails to start direct talks.}}
M23 President Bertrand Bisimwa told media at M23 Base in Bunagana“If the government does not comply…this allows us to alter our deployment and move positions back to Goma.”
In November 2012, the M23 rebels seeized Goma city but pulledout after over two weeks under intense international pressure and the promise from Kinshasa government that it would hold talks with the rebel group.
The talks been Kinshasa government and the M23 rebel movement have been ongoing in Kampala under the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
The summit urged the m23 movement to withdraw its fighters back to positions 20Km out of the city and the rebels complied.
“we stuck to the positions we were assigned by the ICGLR. The Goma withdrawal happened, Bisimwa said at his base in Bunagana.
He added that ; “yet the deployment of an M23 battallion at Goma airport never happened, nor did the city’s Admnistration. We have held our part of the deal, we want the Kinshasa government to hold theirs.”
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