Updates on DR Congo's conflict in North Kivu

This past few days I have been following along the team of journalists from BBC Afrique at the BBC World Service the latest event in Eastern Congo.

M23 rebels have started taking control over a few vilalges around Bunagana, neat Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu.

Today in our main evening programme I interviewed the Congolese Ambassador Barnebe Kikaya bin-Karubi in Great Britain about the latest statement from the Congolese governement in Kinshasa. You can listen to the interview on our website in :

• BBC Soir 1800 30:00
  
• or here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/afrique/

The interview is in French on our network, in English on Focus on Africa:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2011/04/000000_focus_on_africa.shtml

Barnebe Kikaya bin-Karubi accuses Rwanda of backing the rebels, who, according to him, are not defectors from the Congolese army (FARDC), but Rwanda milicians trying to destabilise Eastern Congo.

He also assures that stability has now return to North Kivu.

We'll have more reaction from DR Congo in the next few days. Stay tuned. 


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See also from the BBC World Service:

BBC News - DR Congo: M23 ‪rebels threaten to march on Goma:
bbc.in/N01bLH  ‪

In French, Q&A on the rebellion in DR Congo:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/afrique/region/2012/07/120711_rdc_questions_reponses.shtml