Mahmoud's friend, a rebel with one of the city's brigades, had other things on his mind.
On the ground, fighting has broken out between different rebel groups, with one commander known as Batman killed in an ambush by forces belonging to the Luhansk People's Republic, the quasi-state he supposedly served.
The Mai Mai are the third piece to eastern Congo's violent puzzle, with the rebels on one side, the government forces on the other and the Mai Mai often terrorizing the uncontrolled areas in between.
In 2004, she became a counsellor at the centre, helping the children describe their experiences with the rebels in one-on-one and group counselling sessions.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (Reuters) — A former Colombian lawmaker kidnapped more than eight years ago by FARC rebels escaped through the jungle with one of his rebel captors on Sunday.
Its first ambitious project, to broker peace talks between warring parties in Darfur in 2005, ended in disaster after rebel groups squabbled with one another.
The confrontation exploded into a governmental crisis on Monday, with one rebel group seizing the prime minister.
Adam Adoum Abdullah, a former rebel fighter who joined the Sudanese Army as part of a peace deal with one rebel group in 2006, commandeered an army truck to help collect what little food, blankets and bits of shelter remained in the town for those sleeping out in the cold next to the army camp.
We took steps forward with "Rebels," "Rogue One" and "Force Awakens," but then seemed to regress with "Last Jedi" and "Solo".
The inclusive transitional government of 2015 and the recent reconciliation with one rebel faction have done little to buttress the peace agreement or create an enabling environment for nation building.
