 Now the M23 rebel has agreed to withdraw from Kimbuba, one of its strategic positions at the gate of the provincial capital, Goma, which it conquered at the end of October in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the communique he signed by the rebel movement's political spokesman, Lawrence Kanuka, it is a gesture of goodwill. Since the relaunch of its offensive in October, the Tutsi rebellion of the M23 has conquered large swathes of territory in North Kivo. The Congolese province, bordering Rwanda, causing a sharp rise in tension between Kinshasa.