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DR Congo crisis: M23 rebels ignore Goma deadline DR Congo crisis: M23 rebels 'agree to leave Goma'
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Rebel forces remain in the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma despite Monday's deadline from regional leaders for them to leave. Rebel forces have reportedly agreed to withdraw from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma, which they captured last week.
Reports are coming in of renewed fighting in the area. However, there are also reports of new fighting in the area.
Earlier, Uganda's military had said the M23 rebels had agreed to pull out of the city which they captured last week but the rebels have not commented. At an emergency meeting on Friday, regional leaders ordered the M23 rebels to leave Goma by Monday and senior commander Col Antoine Manzi has been quoted as saying they will now do so.
Some 500,000 people have been forced from their homes since the rebels took up arms in April. Some 500,000 people have fled their homes during seven months of fighting.
Both Uganda and Rwanda strongly deny UN accusations that they are backing the M23.
M23 military commander Sultani Makenga on Monday flew to Uganda for talks, after which Uganda's chief of defence forces Aronda Nyakayirima told Reuters news agency that he had agreed to withdraw from Goma.
Asked by the AFP news agency, Col Manzi said: "It's true."
Both the M23 and Rwanda's leaders are mostly ethnic Tutsis and on Tuesday, Rwanda accused a rival Hutu rebel group of attacking its territory not far from the border town of Goma.
Rwanda has sought to justify its backing for previous rebel groups in eastern DR Congo by saying they are the only way of preventing Hutu militias from launching attacks.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame came to power in 1994 at the end of the genocide of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, when many of those who carried out the killing fled into what is now DR Congo.