Fighting resumes in DRC's South Kivu ahead of crisis talks

Women and children in front of their makeshift shelters at Lushagala camp for Internally Displaced Persons in the city of Goma, the capital of the North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 3 February 2025. AFP - TONY KARUMBA

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congolese authorities said its troops and its allies clashed with the M23 rebel group, supported by Rwandan soldiers, in the mining town of Nyabibwe in South Kivu.

"Our positions have been attacked," the spokesperson for the Congolese government, Patrick Muyaya, told RFI, adding that the M23 has broken the ceasefire it had unilaterally declared on 3 February 2025.