Democratic Republic of Congo: Prime Minister Lukonde resigns. Concern is growing in the country that the power vacuum could make the rebels even stronger.
Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run in North Kivu province. In recent weeks, fighting between the M23 rebels and the Congolese armed forces has increased. The United Nations wants to withdraw its peacekeepers from the region by the end of the year. The US State Department condemned the “intensifying violence.”