Setting foreign fighters on the road home

Initially in late January, small clusters of haggard Rwandan rebels and refugees started to trickle out of the forests of the Congolese province of North Kivu. Within just a couple of weeks their numbers climbed into the hundreds. By June, more than 8,000 – including about 1,000 former combatants – had been repatriated back to neighbouring Rwanda by United Nations peacekeepers and refugee workers.