An Indian brigade under U.N. auspices spent the night patrolling Goma, Kennedy said.
He is now reported to have left the Goma area, taking with him heavily armed soldiers.
Rebels have rejected previous calls to leave Goma, the main city in eastern DR Congo.
The rebel group has been accused of widespread looting by the United Nations and Goma residents.
They seized the main city in the region, Goma, in November, but withdrew under international pressure.
In light of the recent conflict in Goma, his story is all the more timely.
The UN has pledged to provide food assistance to Goma's 450, 000 residents for the next month.
She looked to be about the same age as my older girls, Goma, Karma, Anjali, and Nisha.
M23 rebels attacked government troops about 12 km (7 miles) north of Goma, said army spokesman Olivier Hamuli.
The crew couldn't make contact with the landing strip at Goma on what was then the Rwanda-Zaire border.
All of these measures were triggered late last year when M23 rebels seized the eastern city of Goma.
Late one night in April, in the midst of the rebellion, soldiers loyal to the ex-general appeared in Goma.
In the last few days, fighting has drawn closer to large populated areas, such as the town of Goma.
The Kibati camp for 65, 000 displaced people is on the outskirts of Goma and very near the front lines.
The United Nations welcomed M23's move, but said the group must cease military activity and stay outside of Goma.
The immediate question is whether the UN peacekeeping force, MONUC, can defend Goma should Mr Nkunda decide to attack.
It came down in the city centre shortly before it was due to land in bad weather at Goma airport.
These are the first clashes between the two sides since the rebels pulled out of the regional capital, Goma, last year.
U.N. officials in Goma say they began to insist on the exclusion of Mr. Ntaganda from all operations involving the U.N.
Goma, with more than one million residents, serves as the de facto headquarters of dozens of humanitarian agencies in the troubled region.
Murthy said he heard reports Friday of looting and an unconfirmed report of a person burned alive in Kanyabayonga, north of Goma.
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His advisers say they hope for a rapid improvement in security in and around the Congolese town of Goma, near Rwanda's border.
The regional leaders' plan foresees an integrated force being deployed for an initial period of three months at Goma airport, Ugandan Gen.
Kigali has been, one can safely argue, the sole shareholder in the M23 militia gang, and its elder sisters CNDP and RCD-Goma.
The rebels needed cash, and men from the world's mining houses were lining up outside their headquarters in Goma, in eastern Zaire.
But checking the origin of most minerals on sale in Goma or Bukavu, big border towns in eastern Congo, is virtually impossible.
Goma, with more than one million residents, also serves as the de facto headquarters of dozens of humanitarian agencies in the troubled region.
If Kitchanga and the neighbouring towns of Mweso and Kilolirwe fall to the M23, the rebels would easily be able to take Goma.
The group briefly seized control of the city of Goma last November after carving out an area for themselves in North Kivu province.
On another occasion, U.N. attack helicopters with troops on the ground killed more than 200 members of a militia group moving on Goma.
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