First batch of 900 troops land in Goma to contain rebels

The first contingent of Kenya Defence Forces troops Saturday arrived in Goma area of North Kivu proving in eastern democratic republic of congo to undertake what has been termed an offensive operation against the m23 rebel group that has destabilized the area.

[@millahmellie4659]

May the Lord Almighty protect them 🙏

[@brendapitah1955]

Thanks Kenya, Uganda we r dare Rwanda close yeah let's do it like in da Horn East African community we stand🇺🇬🇰🇪🇹🇿🇷🇼🇧🇮🇨🇩🇸🇸

[@juanasamura4374]

Much love from kenya(KDF)🫂u sent troops to my country during the civil war sierra leone🇸🇱🫂🇰🇪

[@juanasamura4374]

@@themercy234 how did i politise it,the kDF chief staff said that during our war tue send troops to my country sierra leone and am happy to hear that its history🇸🇱🇰🇪🫂🙏🏾

[@zaharacreative]

Juana, I Wish you and Sierra Leone well.

[@themercy234]

@@juanasamura4374 I think the reply landed on the wrong thread. Sorry about that.

[@fredricklemiso6191]

East Africa power house under president ruto 🇰🇪🇰🇪❤️

[@Thekingkillerson]

hongera hongera Kenya army soldier God bless Kenya

[@markgeorge7426]

Hongera for what? They should stop cattle rustling in west pokot and turkana before going to Congo.

[@toniokats5601]

george rudi shule upate elimu

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

@@markgeorge7426 Lmao. Hiyo si kazi ya jeshi. Lakini how would you even know

[@mgtvnews6890]

@@markgeorge7426 they will get baptism of fire in Congo and we will be happy

[@kevoJASIRI2546]

Just yesterday ruto talked about watu walingala na longirefu now deploying mmm we as Azimio are just looking nothing to say

[@ngangaannick6879]

I'm from congo but i would like to say mumechoose vibaya sanaa , Mungu awasaidie warudi tu

[@christinewangili7113]

Always my best news presenter

[@jeaninezanika2333]

Kenya saidiya sisi mutoshe wadande kwaudogo yetu ya KIVU mudande simutu nimumyama sana

[@beirut6222]

Here comes kenya 🇰🇪 best reporter both swahili and english

[@alexkimaiyo5985]

I hope the rebels have seen the salute presented by the Kenya army

[@sabinariana7436]

May God be ever powerful for ever Amen

[@blacqgod8023]

About time & may this be true you are your brothers keeper may Africa unite

[@thetruthone7240]

Kenya army needs to change its uniform tailored specifically to fit each soldier. They look to be wearing oversized unfitting uniforms. Boots are okay. Guns need modification to suit/counter tactics used by rebels. Armed Drones with night vision/body heat censors are needed. Logistics is key to this fight with the m23 rebels. High tech communications with eaves dropping is necessary. Food is important. Cooperation with the Congolese army is extremely vital, listen to what they have to say & take it into consideration becoz it's their country & they understand it very well more than you. Local knowledge is the key to winning this war.

[@lookman2]

Sawa General.

[@BS-kl9yf]

@@lookman2 🤣🤣🤣.

[@victorotieno512]

Yes battalion commander 😂😂🤣🤣

[@ericthuku8081]

You should be cognizant of the fact that military, police and even firefighting uniform design, is for function. Ceremonial gear is another thing all together.

[@legendovbago4716]

Kenya has never won any war ,,that's why they still train in gamboots

[@princeochilo4329]

We are here quick to help other while here at home every street is full of gangs. Hii Kenya too. Wuuuehhhh

[@rwagasanadanny1996]

Kenya must be very careful and avoid partiality as their forces enters the Congo conflict.

[@lenishakur989]

"foreign armies are the problem not the solution, in DRCongo" -a congolese civilian

[@David-gy6fv]

Joining the army will be a call. Kenyan have to think hard before joining it.

[@gilbertowuor6071]

Don't be a coward Dave please.

[@MohamedAli-nu1nb]

May God bless our military's while performing their peace mission.

[@giftmwasambu4442]

Kenyans soldiers should as well be deployed to finish the bandits in our own country at kerio Valley . How come you can't solve the problem within the next thing you do is offering help. We should prioritize our own problems so that our brothers in kerio Valley can get infrastructure development, go to school and achieve their economic goals. That's their right and we're not begging

[@Totowetu]

If the Army is deployed it will take a lot of convincing to the international mother and father IMF that we have our issues in order so we qualify for dollar loans.

[@wemakalama6458]

May the almighty Allah be wirh them inshaAllah 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@faustinkilote4687]

God protect our soldiers

[@melodyvuhya244]

Why don't they sweep off thugs terrorizing Kenyans in CBD and the estates first

[@ericthuku8081]

Lt. Col. Daniel Obiero looks badass, wooaaaahhh!!!

[@1Healthmatters]

As strong as Kenyan army✊✊✊

[@nabikigrace5780]

All the best. God bless you mightly!

[@Okwirisam254]

Hawooo ma umbwaa watajuaa sisi ni akina naniii.....tuta watandika mpaka warudi Rwanda nkt ati M23.... Sisi wabaya ndio tume fika area,

[@ruthiecarole2691]

God speed to EAC Troops .

[@gulobasusana9746]

The rebels are M23 IS KAGAME . AND ADF IS MUSEVEN . AWO WAWIRI NDIYO WANASUMBUWA AFRICA. KWANZA NDIO WANASUMBUWA CONGO NAKUWUWA WA CONGO.

[@carolynesimiyu508]

May the Lord of heaven give you victory ✌ 🙏 and favour

[@vuvuzelajordankhasindu2963]

Mungu mbele. Peace.

[@justinmutabazi7353]

M23 inagombania masrahi yawo kama wanainchi wa Congo, Sasa nyinyi Mnakwenda kugombania Nini? Niya yenu munge simama katikati ya Vikundi ambavyo vinagombana lakini mnakuja kugombana na upande Moja hhhhhh Vita ni vita risasi haribaguwi mtapata kiricho wareta kwasababu munaegamia upande wa Serikari M23 Bg up Mungu atawarinda najuwa Misitu yakwenu mnajuwa, chapa fara nondo

[@petermutanda9934]

Guys God is with you

[@b.9811]

This thing might bring enemity And probably kenya will be affected. Remember Alshabab Remember Taliban and America. Kwani why only 🇰🇪 . Its good to help but reasoning is good. U cant expect to go to someone's land with guns. And be welcomed warmly.😳😳😳🤚 🙏 PRAY for ur Land and children. If 🇰🇪 shed innocent blood in Congo God will also strike us.

[@Matayoessentials]

At least you Kenya, but my Uganda present sent there thieves instead of peace keepers

[@kw_akafarmer4058]

Why have the people of Eastern DRC rejected the U.N. peace keeping force and what surety is there that this EAC force is not a back hand way of the same U.N., perpetrating whatever evil she was up to in the first place?.

[@duncanabonyo6140]

The problem with UN is that those who come under that banner are interested in earning and keep the war going to help those UN team,EAC forces are there for real peace just like what Kenya did in Sierra Leone,it makes peace

[@kasumbakilyatabaala5817]

Okubeera obumu kyalibadde

[@johnchrispine638]

Congratulations KDF

[@1devoch]

Meanwhile, Kenyans are dying due to insecurity in the streets. What an irony!

[@backyardboy2020]

Hope they got blessings from Kagame .Let’s watch the movie

[@oumaphilipbernard7167]

But is kenya aware that M23 rebels are supported by Museveni for his personal gains and he Museveni always disigise that he is going to Congo to fight ADF🙂🙂 moreover those very rebels also attacks Rwanda and also has iys own rebels in Congo, i see Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda fighting in Congo

[@Papandombe]

For four decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, has never witnessed peace since the assassination of Patrice Lumumba on January 17, 1961 in Lumumbashi. Last week, Washington accused the Republic of Rwanda for the escalation of the crisis that has continued to torment neighbouring DRC where fighting has been going-on between government groups and rebels led by M23. America warned Rwanda that its support for armed groups was unacceptable and reiterated its concern about the country’s perceived support for M23 rebels. Already, Kenya is among other regional countries that have deployed troops to DRC, with Kenya sending a strong 900-army personnel to tackle armed groups in the strife-landlocked country. However, reports reaching Nairobi from Goma indicate that the M23 rebels have sent a strong warning that should Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) fires at them, they will retaliate. In the American State Department statement, USA said it encouraged countries in the region to work together to restore peace, security and peace, while respecting each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. There has been a long-standing tiff between DRC and Rwanda which eventually saw Kinshasa expelling Rwandese ambassador to DRC in October this year. Lack of peace in DRC has been blamed on the scramble for its vast minerals by the West who forment strife and animosity among locals. As a country, Kenya should be careful when dreading in the volatile DRC. Foreign interests in the US$200 trillion wealth in DRC has been the focus of the West. Kenya should not take the warning from M23 lightly but serious for Kenyans don’t want to see bodies of their loved ones strewn in thickets of DRC and dead ones in coffins flown to Wilson Airport or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).

[@duncanabonyo6140]

We took Kismayu in 2011 matched all the way to Mogadishu,we were in sierra Leone civil war ,Worry not a war is a war ,wait and see the big guns come out,KDF will triumph

[@masabamutalechristopher6436]

@@duncanabonyo6140 YOUNG MAN CONGO IS A DIFFERENT TERRAIN AND A COMPLICATED WAR ALTOGETHER

[@godankorosian524]

may God take care of you🙏🙏

[@rwagasanadanny1996]

Each of the involved parties must be given a doubt of benefit and avoid being biased . I hope they do not intervene like those sent in Rwanda in 1990

[@Alexis-tw4ce]

👍👍👍👍💪💪💪

[@irenewambui]

KDF joining the bad taste COMEDY of Tshisekedi and Kagame which has cost millions of innocent LIVES in the Congo. Trevor, please ask yourself why is the Rwandan embassy in Kinshasa not closed?????????Why is the DRC-RWANDA border not closed? (By the way Kenya media we can do better: There is not country known as "Eastern Democratic rep. of Congo") Correct script should be: "Goma erea...Kivu province...In the East of the Democratic rep of Congo"

[@JohnJuma]

900 is too little for a war torn region. They should have sent 9k.

[@martinthuku457]

Go go go....

[@alouisejohn7752]

Mbona somalia vita havijaisha kama munaujuzi mwingi vita ni vita guy’s ombeni mungu

[@chriskiragu8252]

God bless🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Mikiliste1]

The president of the M23, Bertrand Bisimwa, lives in Uganda, a country where Museveni is the president. Museveni and his army are assisting the Congolese army in neutralising armed groups in eastern Congo, while the M23 president and his collaborators are free to roam Uganda. Isn't this dirty politics? Isn't it a bet with Congolese blood?

[@Coachbill254]

I feel they wiil effect democracy in Uganda

[@Bazukaa001]

NLIKUA AZIMIO SUPPORTER BUT THIS MADE ME LOVE RUTO ALOT

[@topscorer9836]

Wrong caption you are actually making the troops from kenya look antagonistic by it when in reality they are going on a peace keeping mission

[@banduroy]

They're there to fight, not peace keeping mission

[@vigilantmysticnetwork2768]

Viva M23 from Kenya. They are liberators dealing with the architects of the genocide in Rwanda. KDF cannot handle Somalia and can't handle cattle rustlers. What good will come of them in a jungle? This is Uhuru's useless meddling policies that must be undone.

[@robertmaina745]

This is a calling.

[@gilbertowuor6071]

Willy Ngoma commander of the M23, please stand your ragtag army down you don't stand a chance again the KDF. talk to Uhuru Kenyatta for peace he's already there waiting.

[@sebiddeabdulbust6169]

You don't understand a guerilla war fare brother.

[@gilbertowuor6071]

@@sebiddeabdulbust6169 Please enlighten me bro.

[@davidndugere5665]

@@sebiddeabdulbust6169 ... If alshabab fall in kismayu... M23 will fall like no one else

[@hassanalhussein3982]

@@davidndugere5665 Al shabab are still roaming in Somalia. Note that Kenya lost more than 245 soldiers in Alade do you remember that? The Fall of Kismayu was a tactical withdrawal because Kenyans were killing innocent civilians. There is no benefit achieved from invading Somalia.

[@sebiddeabdulbust6169]

@@gilbertowuor6071 brother guerilla war fare is hit and run, ambushes, suprise attacks and many more others. It's not easy as you may think

[@sanruth6317]

U kenyans u dont know what is behind mwebelelemu, if u dont open your eyes , u are the one guns turn to u farawo was not an easy mam and pilato , kenyans read between lines, wake-up call, why did Tz refuse to go there ? because they know wat is behind it with your toru,we pray for them.

[@uzairtwaha9483]

M23 what's behind de cateen

[@faisalmnoor8937]

Congolese are not easy people.

[@kamugishamoses6370]

Victory to M23🙏🙏🙏, u Kenyans you don't know what you joking with.

[@davidndugere5665]

Don't make us laugh 😂 😂 😂 M 23? 😂 😂

[@nassuunamargret4460]

Even uganda we need kelp of taking away museven from our country

[@connectronald4720]

😀😀 we need more prayers for M7 to live many years and rule us up to the promised land.w3 love him

[@malcomxochieng9257]

Who is paying them taxpayers🤣🤣

[@toniokats5601]

Ulitaka walipwe na nani???

[@malcomxochieng9257]

@@toniokats5601 nyanyako

[@toniokats5601]

@@malcomxochieng9257 sawa jaluo.

[@kingsman7965]

who killed mamadou

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

His kinsmen

[@gakiremark7310]

M23 will retain them first when they involved in war betwen

[@iamkongo9248]

UN HAS BEEN IN THAT REGION FOR OVER 20 YEARS- DID NOTHING. AND THESE ONES THING THAT THEY'RE HEROES. THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT CAN SAVE KONGO ARE KONGOLESE. EVERYONE ELSE ARE THERE TO LOOT- SORRY. FARDC ELOKO YA MAKASI- TUKO PAMOJA.

[@chillspotmkenya]

What the fuck were we doing in yogoslavia?

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

Peace mission. That was a dark mission for our boys

[@rebeccanyanjui3016]

I wondered...and East Timor. Madness

[@simbathomu6496]

Go Kenya 🇰🇪

[@brendapitah1955]

Thanks Kenya, Uganda we r dare Rwanda close yeah let's do it like in da Horn East African community we stand🇺🇬🇰🇪🇹🇿🇷🇼🇧🇮🇨🇩🇸🇸