The leader of a rebel alliance that has seized swathes of east Congo told Reuters on Thursday that insurgents were not bound by a ceasefire call from Congo and Rwanda's presidents and cast any minerals-for-security deal with the U.

STORY: The leader of the alliance that includes the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels dismissed calls for an immediate ceasefire on Thursday as his forces pushed deeper into Congolese territory. :: Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame had called on Tuesday for an immediate ceasefire after a surprise meeting in Qatar's capital Doha.

After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army and a rebel group that Rwanda denies backing.