The AFC/M23 rebels on Thursday, February 27, vowed that "this cowardly and barbaric act will not go unpunished" after explosives at a massive rebel rally in Bukavu, the capital of DR Congo's South Kivu Province,

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A number of people were killed on Thursday, February 27, when explosives hit a huge crowd of people who had turned up in Bukavu, the capital of DR Congo’s South Kivu Province, for an AFC/M23 meeting presided over by rebel leader Corneille Nangaa and his deputies.

The details on the cause of explosions were still scanty but the government of the DRC was already trading accusations with the rebels. Kinshasa promptly accused a ‘foreign army’ of rocking the rally with bombs while the M23 accused the government of plotting the explosives.