🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮 - Current situation in the South Kivu region:

M23 have captured the large towns of Luvungi, Luberizi and Sange along the N5 highway - Uvira direction, eastern DR Congo.

Large-scale Burundi reinforcements, FDNB, have arrived in Dunda, along the border. Violent clashes are ongoing between the M23 and the FDNB in Kigurwe, which is the final FDNB stronghold before Dunda.

In the past few hours, the M23 have entered the town of Runingo from the north, where clashes are taking place between the Rwandan-backed group and the Congolese military, FARDC. M23 are now less than 20km from Uvira.

In the past 48 hours, a few Wazalendo Maji-Maji factions defected and have joined the M23, most notably the large Maji-Maji group of Lungwe.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- BREAKING: Runingo has fallen to the M23, the battle for Kiliba has begun - Uvira direction, eastern DR Congo.

Burundi is on the verge of losing its land border with DRC.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Congolese airstrikes against the N5 highway, striking M23 positions.

🇹🇭🇰🇭 The Thai military raised the national flag over an area along the Thai-Cambodian border in Ta Phraya District, Sa Kaeo Province, previously held by Cambodian forces.

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🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- M23 have captured Kiliba, Uvira direction, eastern DR Congo.

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