Dar es Salaam, Feb. 7 -- DR CONGO: A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has issued an international arrest warrant for the leader of the Congo River Alliance, which includes the M23, for war crimes and treason.

State media reported on Thursday that the warrant was issued on Tuesday against Corneille Nangaa for massacres it claimed he committed in eastern DRCs North Kivu and, more recently, in South Kivu regions – constituting a crime under Congolese legislation, as well as international law.

The court has ordered Nangaa to be arrested wherever he may be found and brought to Congolese territory.

Violence erupted in Goma, a city of two million people in eastern DRC, two weeks ago when the M23 fighters launched ...