Democratic Republic of Congo army clashes, M23 rebel group (Sunday) near the eastern city of Goma soldiers, seems to be the most serious blow to a few weeks.
M23 said in a statement, local time 14:00 (1200 GMT) forces attacked positions Mutaho, about 7 km (4 miles), a city of ten thousand residents from the town of Goma, the fighting began.
Rebel groups, which led to international condemnation, when it occupied Goma in November, saying its forces responding decisively.
"Kinshasa's army has just launched on the M23 position Mutaho large-scale attack," Vianney Kazarama, M23 spokesman told Reuters reporters.
Colonel Olivier Hamuli, an army spokesman said the rebels attacked government forces.
"Battle of the initiative from the M23, this is who attacked us Mutaho," he said by telephone from Goma.
M23 accused the army and pro-government militias trying to spur their troops into combat for several weeks.
Fighting to deploy a new 3,000 strong United Nations intervention brigade armed groups in eastern Congo, a difficult task, to take the fight way.
Force - it will be up from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi troops - have begun patrolling, and is close to full strength.
UN peacekeeping chief told Reuters on Sunday, Mr. HervéLadsous 17,000 UN troops in the Congo trial started using unarmed drones to monitor the war-torn region.
United Nations peacekeeping forces in eastern Congo has been more than a decade, but in the complex conflict has dragged on since the 1990s, through violence, famine and disease, killing tens of thousands.
The Congolese government and M23 in neighboring Kampala, Uganda peace talks have stalled between.
Some 66,000 Congolese refugees fled to Uganda, Ugandan rebels from the United Democratic Forces (ADF), the Islamic group, as well as Somalia's "base" organization contact elements Shabaab movement attacked the town last Thursday Kamangu.
On Sunday, local officials said, ADF and Al-Shabaab fighters had captured Kikingi town, near the Ugandan border, police escape after a brief firefight.
"They are looting and robbery, because they did not Kamango" said the regional administrator Amisi Kalonda. "The army stationed not far from there is to get rid of them."
ADF 20 In the late 1990s, which in Uganda Rwenzori Mountains across the forward bases in eastern Congo jungle state of rebellion against Uganda.
Ugandan government offensive ended in 2001, the suppression of the uprising and its remnants pushed deep into eastern Congo. The team has been keeping a low profile.
Uganda worry, accumulate in the ADF capacity, could pose a threat Lake Albert region, have been found in crude oil reserves are estimated at 3.5 millions barrels.
Shabaab claimed the 2010 bombing, 79 people were killed, while watching the World Cup final revenge Uganda deploy troops in Somalia's responsibility.
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