M23 rebel fighters rush from Goma to the town of Sake to reinforce positions as residents of Sake flee with their belongings on the road between Goma and Sake in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 22, 2012. Many of the fleeing residents stopped at an internally displaced person camp between Sake and Goma.

Women run after Congolese soldiers and rebel fighters battle over the eastern Congolese town of Sake, Nov. 22. The woman in orange, identified as Mamou, said she lost her husband by a fatal wound to the head from incoming mortar rounds. Thousands fled the M23 controlled town as the militants seeking to overthrow the government vowed to push forward despite mounting international pressure.

Thousands of Congolese flee the town of Sake, about 16 miles west of Goma, following fresh fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nov. 22.

Congolese children sit on a step in front of M23 rebels in Sake, Nov. 22, 2012. Rebels took the town yesterday, but were engaged in heavy gunfighting this afternoon as government-allied militia tried to retake it.

A woman who fled her home in Sake emerges from a shelter at an internally displaced person camp in Mugunga, between Goma and Sake, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 22.

Surrendered police officers hand in their weapons at the Volcanoes Stadium in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on November 21, 2012. M23 rebels, who took the city yesterday, called on any remaining policemen and army soldiers to assemble at the stadium this morning to officially surrender.

Residents of Goma react as they listen to a M23 rebel group spokesman speak at the Volcanoes Stadium in Goma on November 21, 2012.

Spokesman of the M23 rebel group Lieutenant-Colonel Vianney Kazarama arrives at the Volcanoes Stadium in Goma on November 21, 2012. Kazarama addressed the population of Goma in an attempt to calm and reassure the civilians following the fall of Goma to M23 rebels yesterday.

People ride with their belongings on a wooden bicycle near Goma as they flee renewed fighting between the Congolese army and rebels in eastern Congo on July 24.

Families carry their belongings toward Goma on July 24.

A soldier of the M23 rebel group stands atop a hill overlooking Bunagana in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on July 23, 2012. Several top commanders in the rebel movement were in Bunagana on Monday for a meeting, whilst a relative calm prevailed in the rebel-held territory.

A displaced woman, who fled fighting near Walikale, holds her child at Magunga III camp, outside the city of Goma, on July 23, 2012.

A UN peacekeeping patrol drives through Goma on July 23, 2012.

Families fleeing fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels walk toward Goma on July 23, 2012.

United Nations peacekeepers stand deployed with an armored personnel carrier in Goma on July 10, 2012. The United Nations' Stabilisation Mission for the Congo (MONUSCO) deployed peacekeepers at key positions around the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province following a threat by M23 rebels to advance on the city.

An Indian United Nations peacekeeper digs new defenses on a hill on the outskirts of Goma on July 13, 2012. The commander in charge of this hilltop said that this position would be "the last line of defense" against an advance by M23 rebels, should they threaten Goma.

Brigadier-General Harinder Singh, the United Nations brigade commander for North Kivu, is followed by General Lucien Bahuma, the new commander of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) for North Kivu, following a strategy meeting above the village of Kibumba I, around 20km from the city of Goma, on July 11, 2012.

A Congolese man watches over a slow-burning wood pile covered in turf, used to produce charcoal, in the hills of Masisi territory near Kitchanga on July 16, 2012.

A woman carries a large bundle of firewood on her back near the town of Kitchanga in North Kivu province on July 16, 2012. Many people in this part of eastern Congo, in Masisi territory, rely on rapidly dwindling woodland for their livelihoods, either directly as firewood or through producing charcoal which is transported to Goma, the provincial capital, for sale.

Soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) stand guard on the road between Goma and Rutshuru near the village of Kibumba I on July 11, 2012. The FARDC has deployed forces around Goma to repel any possible advance by M23 rebels on Goma.

Roger Meece, Special Representative to the United Nations Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, left, and Julien Paluku, governor of North Kivu province, second left, leave a press conference in Goma on July 12, 2012. Meece said that the mandate of the UN mission in Congo was to protect civilians and therefore the use of force to prevent the advance of M23 is legitimate.

Residents of Kitchanga sit outside a small shop in the small town in Masisi territory on July 16, 2012. M23 rebels are believed to be marching through the Virunga National Park from Rutshuru towards this town, which could potentially be used as a staging ground for a western march on Goma, the provincial capital. The town is currently held by the Congolese government army, but with many soldiers being ex-CNDP (Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple - a rebel group that was integrated into the army in 2009), there are fears that they could defect to join M23, which is largely formed of former CNDP fighters.

Colonel Makenga, center, commander of the M23 rebel movement, tours the border town of Bunagana, Congo on Sunday. Rebels have seized several towns in volatile eastern Congo, including Bunagana on Thursday night, and Rutshuru on Sunday.

Rebels of the M23 group stand on a road after their troops entered the town of Rutshuru that had already been deserted by the Congolese army, near the Ugandan border on Sunday. Mutineers from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday seized control of three towns in the country's eastern Nord-Kivu province, an AFP correspondent reported today. The rebels, known as M23, took Rutshuru and the towns of Ntamugenga and Rubare, less than 10 kilometres away on the road to the provincial capital Goma, shortly after 12:00 pm local time (1000 GMT).

Refugees escaping from Rutshuru are on the way to Bunagana on Sunday. Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the eastern DR Congo town of Rutshuru, seized earlier in the day by renegade soldiers.

Refugees ecsaping from Rutshuru are on the way to Bunagana, on Sunday. Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the eastern DR Congo town of Rutshuru, seized earlier in the day by renegade soldiers.

A section of Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town, 324 miles southwest of Uganda's capital Kampala on Sunday. Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said on Sunday they seized the town of Rutshuru in North Kivu province after government forces abandoned it.

Congolese refugees queue for porridge at the Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town.

Two displaced Congolese women stand above new homes built in a camp for the internally displaced in Katoyi in Masisi territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu on Monday. Katoyi has seen four waves of people arriving since last September following fights in the area between FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) and Maï-Maï armed groups. The most recent wave, beginning on May 14, has brought some 1500 families to Katoyi fleeing what they describe as attacks by the Maï Maï Raïa Mutomboki armed group, with various sources in Katoyi confirming the deaths of over 100 people over the past few weeks.

Displaced Congolese children sit in a classroom of the Katoyi primary school, where displaced people shelter in Masisi territory, North Kivu province, on Monday. Over 100 people are using the school to shelter every night as some 1500 families have arrived in Katoyi since an outbreak of attacks in the area which began on May 14.

Uraguayan peacekeepers from the United Nations Organization Stabilisation Mission in Congo (MONUSCO) patrol around the village of Katoyi in Masisi territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province. The UN has deployed a platoon of peacekeepers in Katoyi following reports of massacres in the area, with reports of over a hundred people killed in the area since May 14 of this year.