DRCongo rebel chief Cobra Matata transfered to Kinshasa

Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Cobra Matata arrived handcuffed in the capital Kinshasa today amid army accusations that he'd sought to resume his insurgency in the country's north-east.
A ranking officer of the Congolese army told AFP yesterday that the surrendered rebel chief -- whose real name is Banaloki Matata -- was being transferred to Kinshasa following an "attempt to flee to his former guerrilla turf" in the Ituri district of the northeastern Orientale province.
Matata was arrested Friday while allegedly seeking to rejoin units of the Patriotic Revolutionary Forces of Ituri (FRPI) that he commanded until late last year, presumably to resume leadership of its armed uprising.

He arrived, wearing a Congolese army uniform, aboard a plane of the UN's MONUSCO force flown from Bunia in the Orientale province at 2:30 pm (13:30 GMT).
The army official told AFP that once Matata had arrived in Kinshasa, "there'd be a review and full constitution of his case file by (military) services, and its subsequent transfer to the military justice system.