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Rebel leader Nkunda 'arrested'
Nkunda's forces have battled Congolese government forces in the past [AFP]
The leader of a Tutsi rebel group based in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been arrested in neighbouring Rwanda, the command of a Rwandan-Congolese joint force says.
Laurent Nkunda, who is head of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), was captured after he tried to resist an operation by Congolese-Rwandan forces.
"The joint operations command ... informs the public that the ex-general Laurent Nkunda was arrested on Thursday, January 22 at 2230 hours while he was fleeing on Rwandan territory after he had resisted our troops at Bunagana with three battalions," a Congolese/Rwandan official statement said on Friday.
Nkunda's CNDP has led a Tutsi rebellion in eastern DR Congo since 2004.
The Congolese government welcomed the news of Nkunda's arrest by the joint force, which is tasked with hunting down Rwandan Hutu fighters based in DR Congo.