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Slideshow Sponsored Links Congo army digs in against rebel advance as African leaders meet Tweet Share this Email Print Related News African leaders tell Congo rebels to stop war 9:46am EST Analysis & Opinion The problem with the Red Cross Street fighting in Harem, Syria Related Topics World » Congo » Africa » Related Video Rebels advance in Eastern Congo Fri, Nov 23 2012 Gaza conflict Images from inside both the Gaza Strip and Israel. Slideshow 1 of 5. Congolese Revolution Army (CRA) rebels sit in a truck as they patrol a street in Sake, 25 km (15.5 miles) north of Goma city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), November 21, 2012, soon after the rebels captured the town from the government army. The United Nations defended its failed effort to prevent rebels from seizing the Congolese city of Goma, saying on Wednesday its helicopters had fired hundreds of rockets at rebels but were unable to beat them back when their forces sharply increased. Advancing M23 rebels seized the city on Tuesday after soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo's army fled. Credit: Reuters/James Akena By Jonny Hogg and Richard Lough GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo | Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:46am EST GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Congo's army reinforced its positions south of the city of Goma on Saturday to halt a rebel advance, as African leaders met in Uganda to try to end the deepening crisis in an area long plagued by ethnic and political conflict. Fighters from the M23 group, widely thought to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, were trying to push south along Lake Kivu near the eastern rebel stronghold of Goma on the Rwandan border. Regional and international leaders are scrambling to halt the latest flare-up in the Great Lakes area, fuelled by a mix of local and regional politics, ethnic rifts and competition for big reserves of gold, tin and coltan. In the capital, Kinshasa, authorities banned protests, citing the need to keep order in what Congo's national chief of police, Charles Bisengimana, called "undeclared state of war". Fractured government forces were reinforcing positions on the shores of Lake Kivu, an army spokesman told Reuters, in a bid to win back territory lost this week as the rebels pushed out of Goma, a city of one million people. "Our objective is to retake territory we've lost," said Congo army (FARDC) spoksesman Colonel Olivier Hamuli. Goma is a regional headquarters of a U.N. force, known as MONUSCO, tasked with assisting government troops to protect civilians, but peacekeepers largely looked on once the army fled and the city fell. France has called MONUSCO's failure "absurd". The rebels have threatened to march on Kinshasa and "liberate" the rest of the central African nation, and failed attempts at a counter offensive this week forced FARDC to pull back to the lakeside town of Minova, leaving a trail of corpses and abandoned equipment in their wake. "We are going to defend Minova, but we'll also try to push back the rebels," Hamuli said. Troop reinforcements were being sent to the front lines, he said. M23 forces moved south through the hills towards Minova, in a strategic position on the road to Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, and a rebel spokesman said they had come within 12 km (7-1/2 miles) of the town before halting their advance. The rebels have said that Bukavu is their next objective and have vowed to sweep across the vast nation Kinshasa if Congolese President Joseph Kabila does not agree to talks. M23 LEADER IN KAMPALA The head of M23's political arm was also in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, but it was not clear whether he would hold direct talks with Kabila. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is not attending the negotiations and is represented by Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo. Rwanda has vigorously denied charges it is supporting the rebellion. As commanders on the ground tried to cobble together a force capable of holding back the rebels, Kabila appointed a new interim head of ground forces late on Friday. General Francois Olenga Tete takes over from former army boss General Gabriel Amisi, who was suspended on Thursday amid charges he had sold arms to other eastern rebels. Olenge rose through the ranks of a rebellion led by Kabila's father and former president Laurent Kabila. A 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks described him as a political appointee with no military background, a violent streak and "reputed to be corrupt". "The question is not (that it will make a big difference to the army), it was that the post was empty and it needed to be filled," Information Minister Lambert Mende said late on Friday. (Additional reporting by Elias Biryabarema in Kampala; Writing by Joe Bavier) World Congo Africa Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. 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