DRC President Felix Tshisekedi announced he is going to reach out to opposition leaders in a bid to create a unity government, as a humanitarian crisis deepens in the country's east with the advance of M23 rebels.

Congo's president says he is going to launch a unity government as violence spreads across the country's east and pressure mounts over his handling of the crisis. In some of his first statements since Rwandan-backed rebels captured major cities in eastern Congo,

Felix Tshisekedi told a meeting of the ruling Sacred Union coalition not to be distracted by internal quarrels.