Troops patrol in Kiwanja, a town around 20km away from the fighting between army troops and rebels. The leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels has urged his fighters to lay down arms against army troops waging an offensive against them in the country’s troubled east. The call came with the rebels on the back foot as DR Congo troops pounded hilltop positions where die-hard fighters have holed up after being forced from their last stronghold this week.
