By AFPMore by this AuthorKAMPALA,Uganda's government on Tuesday repatriated 70 Congolese ex-rebels and their families, who had volunteered to return home five years after they were defeated, the foreign ministry said. The 70 ex-soldiers, as well as 10 family members, had all been members of a rebel group called M23. "Uganda handed over 70 former combatants of the M23 rebels to the DR Congo government, under the voluntary repatriation programme," Ugandan ministry of foreign affairs spokesman Moses Kasujja told AFP. He said United Nations officials watched as the group boarded a plane in Uganda's main airport in Entebbe. TUTSI MILITIARelated Content DR Congo rebels surrender in welcome for President TshisekediThe M23 were former members of a Tutsi militia who had been integrated in the Congolese army under a 2009 peace deal.

Source: Daily Nation February 26, 2019 10:30 UTC