DR Congo grants amnesty to hundreds of M23 rebels
Kinshasa (AFP) April 30, 2015 - The Democratic Republic of Congo announced Thursday it had granted amnesty to around 375 ex-members of the defeated M23 rebel movement. The rebels' 18-month war, during which they briefly seized the key eastern DR Congo town of Goma, capital of the mineral-rich North Kivu province, was brought to an end in 2013 by government troops and UN peacekeepers. Some 1,300 rebels fled to Uganda an ... more
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