REBELS who captured Goma, the largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east, say they want to take their fight all the way to the  capital Kinshasa.

At a briefing on Thursday where they sought to assert their control over and surrounding territory in the neighbouring province of South Kivu , the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels said they would be open to dialogue with the government, which has also proposed by the east African regional bloc of which Rwanda is a member.

Their motive, however, is to gain political power, Corneille Nangaa, one of the political leaders of M23, told the briefing.