DRC: M23 rebels recapture Kishishe village

Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed

The M23 rebels have retaken the village of Kishishe in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they are accused of having committed a massacre at the end of November 2022, killing some 170 people according to the UN, local sources said on Tuesday.
These rebels, backed by Rwanda according to many sources, withdrew from the village at the beginning of April, at the same time as they left other localities in North Kivu province that they had seized the previous year.
But after six months of relative calm, violent fighting resumed in early October between the rebels and the army allied with so-called “patriot” armed groups. Since then, the M23 seems to be gradually reoccupying the positions it had vacated.
Kishishe was largely deserted by its inhabitants, but fighting nevertheless took place there for two days before the army moved in, according to sources interviewed by telephone from Goma, the provincial capital.