Congolese general arrested

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Rwandan authorities have arrested renegade Congolese general, Laurent Nkunda. He’s the leader of a Tutsi rebel force that’s been involved in the long-running war in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Anchor Marco Werman gets the story from the BBC’s Peter Greste.

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