Nearly 100 police officers from DR Congo fled to neighbouring Uganda over the weekend as fighting between M23 rebels and the military in DR Congo’s east intensified, a Ugandan military spokesperson said on Monday, August 5, The EastAfrican reports.

This comes after the second ministerial meeting between Rwanda and DR Congo hosted by Angola’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on July 30, agreed on a ceasefire that was supposed to come into effect from midnight on August 4. The 12-hour meeting on the security and peace situation in eastern DR Congo, which was a follow up to first meeting held in March, was held in Luanda under the mediation of Angolan foreign minister Tete Antonio.