Former Tutsi rebel chief Laurent Nkunda is not afraid of trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo or in an international court, his lawyer said Saturday. Stephane Bourgon also said the dreaded ex rebel supremo, whose forces operated in DR Congo's restive Nord Kivu region, was willing to consider "all reasonable solutions," including exile. "He is not scared of ...

Rwanda's Supreme Court postponed the hearing of a plea seeking the release of former Congolese Tutsi rebel chief Laurent Nkunda, a statement from Nkunda's family said Thursday. Nkunda's lawyers in December complained to the Supreme Court that their client's continued detention, first in Gisenyi, a town in north western Rwanda on the border with DR Congo ...

Lawyers for Laurent Nkunda, a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have filed a complaint about his "illegal detention" in Rwanda, his family announced Tuesday. The lawyers have taken the case to Rwanda's Supreme Court after the High Military Court refused to consider freeing Nkunda, whose rebels took vast swathes of eastern DR Congo before finally ...

Hundreds of former rebels who had joined government forces under a peace deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deserted and looted eastern towns, the UN mission and witnesses said Tuesday. A former rebel commander known as Jaguar, who was heading an army battalion in the rank of colonel, provoked the desertion late Friday in Nyamilima, Nord-Kivu province, said ...