Information Minister Lambert Mende told Reuters that the fighters had been "driven out and suffered heavy losses".
"We know very well that these men have links to M23, " said Lambert Mende, a DRC government spokesman.
Four government soldiers and 15 rebels were killed in the clashes on Monday, government spokesperson Lambert Mende told the BBC.
Government spokesman Lambert Mende said the government did not have much confidence in the rebel ceasefire, Reuters news agency reports.
"It was a provocative attack but our forces handled it very well, they have pushed the rebels back, " Mr. Mende said.
Lumumbaville will be built in Kassai-Oriental province, the birthplace of Mr Lumumba, to "honour the memory of a great Congolese statesman", Mr Mende said.
Johnson's DNA sequence was a 99.7 percent match to the Mende people, and Kittles says his database is so large that most clients have a direct match.
Mende said the arrested men also had links to former Congolese strongman Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the country, then known as Zaire, for more than three decades.
In March last year, the Nigerians, helped by the Kamajor militia a secretive society of the Mende people from the south-east succeeded in pushing the rebels back into the jungle.
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Lambert Mende, Congo's information minister, said the M23 rebels attacked the national army positions first, in an attempt to cut off the main road, north of Goma, which is expected to be used for the planned deployment of the new U.N. brigade.
Lambert Mende, Congo's information minister, said separately that the M23 rebels attacked the national army positions first, in an attempt to cut off the main road, north of Goma, which is expected to be used for the planned deployment of the new U.N. brigade.
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