The Ugandan army said the camp had been holding 1,373 former M23 fighters. PHOTO | FILE
About 1,000 former fighters from a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel group broke out Tuesday from a camp in Uganda where they were being held as soldiers were trying to repatriate them, the Ugandan army said.
"A thousand rebels from the M23 (group) have escaped" from the camp in Bihanga, about 300 kilometres southwest of the Ugandan capital Kampala, a spokesman for the Ugandan army said on the official Twitter account.
