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M23 fighters patrol Bukavi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [AFP]
The United Nations repatriated the first group of Congolese who fled to Burundi from the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, among thousands who fled the violence last year.
The mineral-rich eastern DRC saw a fresh surge of fighting last year as the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group seized swathes of territory, including the town of Uvira near the Burundian border in December.
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