http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/10417909/DR-Congo-M23-rebels-close-to-defeat-after-US-and-British-intervention.html DR Congo: M23 rebels close to defeat after US and Britain urge Rwanda to stay out The M23 rebel group is made up of hundreds of Congolese soldiers mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group who deserted the national army last year Picture: Reuters Twitter 33 Facebook 87 Share 120 By Mike Pflanz , in Nairobi and David Blair 3:19PM GMT 31 Oct 2013 Foreign ministers of America and Britain called president of neighbouring Rwanda to ask him to cut ties with rebels Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are close to defeat after the foreign ministers of both America and Britain called the president of neighbouring Rwanda and urged him not to intervene to support them, The Daily Telegraph has learned. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, and William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, telephoned Paul Kagame separately last Fr...
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