DRC military court sentences Nangaa, M23 leaders to hang

Corneille Nangaa

Corneille Nangaa addresses journalists at the Serena Hotel, Nairobi, on December 15. 

Photo credit: Bonface Bogita | Nation Media Group

A military court in Kinshasa on Thursday handed down the death penalty to former electoral commission boss Corneille Nangaa and more than two dozen other members of the rebel group, Alliance Fleuve Congo or Congo River Alliance (AFC).

The Congolese court adopted a rarely used weapon to tame a group associated with the M23 rebels, who were declared a terrorist organisation.