Nine sentenced to death

10 March 2017: a Congolese court sentenced to death nine rebels convicted of having participated in the violence that has caused more than 1000 deaths in the east of the country since October 2014. Two other accused were acquitted and a third was returned to a juvenile court.
Those who were convicted were charged with crimes against humanity, terrorism and participation in a rebellion. They were members of the Democratic Allied Forces, a group founded in neighbouring Uganda which is now settled in Congo. The trial of a hundred accused began in December.
The FAD ranks among the dozens of groups vying for the control of mineral wealth in eastern Congo.

(Source: 10/3/2017, Associated Press)