M23 rebel movement leader Jean-Marie Runiga said M23 has changed its name and is preparing to fend off expected new attacks by the government army.
“The M23 army… is now named the Congolese Revolutionary Army (ARC),” the group’s leader Jean-Marie Runiga said in a statement issued after a press conference on Saturday.
Runiga accused the FARDC army of collaborating with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
DR Congo’s army has itself accused the M23 of collaborating with the FDLR in the east, a chronically unstable region that is home to numerous armed groups with murky allegiances and motives.
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