{"id":10948,"date":"2019-02-27T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=10948"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:44:57","slug":"dr-congo-ex-rebels-head-home-from-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=10948","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo ex-rebels head home from Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/Congo-ex-rebels-head-home-from-Uganda-726373?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/52952536.295.jpg\" alt=\"Congo Rebels\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>M23 ended their insurgency in 2013<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, Feb 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda&#8217;s government has repatriated 70 Congolese ex-rebels and their families, the Foreign Ministry said.<br><br>It adds that the ex-rebels had volunteered to return home five years after they were defeated.<br><br>They had all been members of a rebel group called M23.<br><br>Ugandan ministry of foreign affairs spokesman Moses Kasujja said that UN officials watched as the group boarded a plane in Uganda&#8217;s main airport in Entebbe.<br><br>The M23 is made up of fighters who deserted from the Congolese army in April 2012 following a mutiny.<br><br>They are mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group, a minority in eastern DR Congo but with ties to Rwanda&#8217;s leaders.<br><br>Several hundred ended up living in a Ugandan-run camp in the west of the country. The 70 who flew back on Tuesday are not the first to go home, with a total of 316 now having been officially repatriated. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M23 ended their insurgency in 2013 KAMPALA, Feb 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda&#8217;s government has repatriated 70 Congolese ex-rebels and their families, the Foreign Ministry said. It adds that the ex-rebels had volunteered to return home five years after they were defeated. They had all been members of a rebel group called M23. Ugandan ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}