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March 1st, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Thursday, Eduardo del Buey also added that “This morning MONUSCO reported gunshots in the area.”
“The mission says that between 3,000 and 4,000 Congolese have now taken refuge around its base in Kitchanga, (located some 80 kilometers west of Goma)” the spokesman said.
Reports say that clashes between the Congo army and the rebel group, called the Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, erupted in the region on Wednesday.
This comes as the army is already fighting the March 23 movement (M23) rebels. The eight-month insurgency in the African nation has threatened to develop into an all-out war.
Several armed groups are active in the east of DRC and fighting for the control of the country’s vast mineral resources, including gold, the main tin ore cassiterite, and coltan (columbite-tantalite), which is used to make many electronic devices, including mobile phones.
Since early May 2012, nearly 3 million people have fled their homes in the eastern Congo. About 2.5 million have resettled in Congo, but more than 460,000 have crossed into neighboring Rwanda and Uganda.
Congo has faced numerous problems over the past few decades, such as grinding poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and a war in the east of the country that has dragged on since 1998 and left over 5.5 million people dead.
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