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Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service Fighters from the M23 rebel group have captured the town of
Senegalese MPs are debating an amnesty bill which includes plans to free opposition supporters who have been imprisoned in recent years for taking part in protests. Nyanzale from the military in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The amnesty is aimed at ending the political turmoil that was triggered by President Macky Sall's decision to postpone last month's elections. "We are now in
It is not clear if the amnesty would be applied to the jailed opposition politician Ousmane Sonko, whose supporters have held numerous demonstrations. Nyanzale, the enemy has fled,” rebel spokesperson Willy Ngoma told the BBC
The security forces responded with violence to protests killing dozens of people and arresting hundreds. Great Lakes service.
Critics of the bill say it will be used to exonerate government and security officials for the deaths of protesters. Army
More on Senegal: commander Jerome Chico Tshitambwe confirmed to the Reuters news agency that Nyanzale
Ousmane Sonko: Senegalese youth hero or rabble-rouser? has been taken by the rebels.
Senegal election crisis: 'We feel betrayed by President Macky Sall' Nyanzale,
which is about 130km (80 miles) north of the city of Goma, had been a place of
refuge for people displaced by fighting in surrounding areas.
But earlier this week thousands of them fled again when Nyanzale came under fire.
Mr Ngoma said many had now returned to the town.
Isaac Kibira, a deputy to the governor in the nearby town of
Bambo, said M23 had been firing “indiscriminately” before taking Nyanzale.
“It
is since the morning that we noticed the capture of Nyanzale by the M23, and
the death toll rose to 15," Mr Kibira told Reuters.
The M23, formed as an offshoot of another rebel group, began
operating in 2012 - ostensibly to protect the local Tutsi population that has
long complained of persecution and discrimination.
Its fighters took up
arms again in 2021, saying promises in an earlier peace deal had been broken. M23 fighters are well equipped, but the group denies being a Rwandan proxy.
On Monday, the European
Union said it was "extremely concerned by the escalation of violence"
and called
for dialogue between DR Congo
and Rwanda in order to tackle the root causes of the conflict.
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