M23 ex-combatants board a UN chopper at Entebbe Airport after authorities in Uganda handed them over for immediate voluntary repatriation to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on February 26, 2019. PHOTO | UGANDA MEDIA CENTRE
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.
