Blue Helmets from the new "Springbok" operation are in position in Sake, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after UN peacekeepers announced a joint operation with the national army designed to stop M23 rebels from capturing key eastern cities. "If the government tells us to leave, we will leave, but for the moment we are shoulder to shoulder to ensure the security of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo," says lieutenant-colonel Kevin Byabato Rweyemamu, MONUSCO's military spokesman. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES