Uganda, March 1 -- The French Ambassador to Uganda, Mr Xavier Sticker, has said his government has received names of key actors in the Rwanda-backed M23 and FDLR-rebel group opposed to Kigali, and forwarded them to the UN sanctions committee for appropriate action.

Ambassador Sticker also urged Kigali to "cease all support" for M23 and "to withdraw from the Congolese territory" as war drums continue to sound in the restive eastern DR Congo, which borders Uganda to the west.

"France calls on all armed groups to put an end to the violence. Following their commitments, the armed forces of the DRC must cease all collaboration with the FDLR, a movement derived from the militias that committed the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994,...