Rural activities have been paralyzed for several days around the villages of Kiseguro and Katwiguro, Rutshuru territory (North Kivu) following the fighting between M23 rebels and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

According to local sources in Nyamilima, not a day goes by without M23 rebels clashing with FDLR and Wazalendo fighters in this region.

These clashes are taking place in the peripheral agricultural fields where the FDLR fled after the occupation of several entities by the M23.

A situation that is creating psychosis among the inhabitants of this region.

Victims of this hunt, the peaceful populations are prohibited from accessing their fields.

“The Wazalendo are in the forest today. And the M23 occupies the cities. With the hunt, the peaceful populations who carry out field work are victims. They risk not doing well during the growing season. Many people are arrested, accused of collaborating with loyalist forces,” said a local notable.

Reliable sources report that many other people are missing or even murdered.

They are therefore asking the Government to launch offensives against the M23 to put them out of harm’s way.

In the meantime, several entities in the Bwisha chiefdom going as far as the city of Ishasha, on the Congolese-Ugandan border, have been under rebel occupation for more than a month now.

sources: Radio Okapi