KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Representatives of a Congolese rebel group that now controls the key eastern Congolese city of Goma are holding out for assurances from regional leaders that their demands will be considered after they quit the provincial capital, Ugandan officials said Tuesday, hours after a deadline set by a regional bloc for M23 rebels to leave Goma passed with the rebels still in charge.

The bloc representing nations in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa had given the M23 rebels an ultimatum to quit Goma by midnight Monday. M23 fighters captured the city last week and then threatened to topple the government of Congolese President Joseph Kabila.