Six individuals face new United States sanctions for human rights abuses in northeast Congo
The United States has imposed sanctions on six people it accuses of exacerbating violence in eastern Congo.
M23, whose intelligence commander Bernard Byamungu is among those sanctioned, is one of more than 120 armed groups in the region fighting for control of valuable mineral resources, territory or community protection. Mass killings by are frequent, and the violence has triggered an exodus of over 1 million people.
Onesphore Sematumba, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, said the U.S. sanctions are mostly symbolic.
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