REBELS TO WITHDRAW FROM KEY DR CONGO TOWN 'AFTER US REQUEST'. (PHOTO)

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 Rebels to withdraw from key DR Congo town 'after US request' The M23 rebel group has said it would withdraw from the eastern DR Congo town of Uvira at the request of the US administration, which had criticised seizure of the town last week as a threat to mediation efforts. The rebels entered Uvira, on the border with Burundi, less than a week after the presidents of Congo and Rwanda met with US President Donald Trump in Washington and affirmed their commitment to a peace deal known as the Washington Accords. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that Rwanda's actions in eastern Congo violated the Washington Accords and vowed to "take action to ensure promises made to the President are kept." A report by a United Nations group of experts in July said Rwanda exercised command and control over the rebels. Rwanda denies supporting M23 and has blamed Congolese and Burundian forces for the renewed fighting. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Allia...

I'LL KEEP CRYING UNTIL WE GET JUSTICE - ORTOM.{PHOTOS}.


Image may contain: one or more people, people sitting and indoor        Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has pledged to keep speaking out on the invasion and ongoing killings in the state until the people of the state got justice.
He spoke today when a delegation of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, South South Zone, led by Archbishop God-Dowell Oyibo Avwomakpa, visited him at the Peoples House in Makurdi.He said if those saddled with the responsibility of protecting life and property had acted promptly on reports which he made about threats to invade the state the invasion and subsequent massacre could have been averted.Governor Ortom reiterated his call for the resignation or sack of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, for his unprofessional conduct of taking sides with the invaders and lack of capacity to stop the killings.According to the Governor, the sacking of communities and killings had continued after the burial of the 73 victims adding that several security operatives had been killed and their rifles taken by the Fulani herdsmen.He said herdsmen attacks had become an enormous national problem which patriots across the country must rise up to tackle decisively.The Governor commended the people of the South-South for rallying support for the state in its time of need more than any part of the country and prayed that God would reward them.Earlier, Archbishop Avwomakpa called on President Muhammadu Buhari to defend the people of the state as Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the country.He said the delegation visited to acquire first hand information before they could know whether to cry to fellow Christians in other parts of the world to come to the aid of fellow Christians in Benue State.The delegation had also visited and donated relief items to some of those displaced by the crisis who are in one of the seven camps.More photos below.
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