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                    US Sanctions Rwanda Over Child Soldiers

   The United States has imposed sanctions on Rwanda for its alleged
   support of a group that uses child soldiers.
   State Department official Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the assistant
   secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs, announced the sanctions
   Thursday in an online forum with African reporters.
   Thomas-Greenfield gave few details, but said the sanctions are related
   to a rebel group in eastern Congo that Rwanda is accused of supporting.
   "In this case it was related to M23, and we will continue to have
   discussions with the Rwandan government on that issue," she said.
   United Nations experts say Rwandan has provided arms and training to
   M23, a group that has seized territory in Congo`s North Kivu province.
   Rwanda denies backing the rebels.
   Thomas-Greenfield did not specify the nature of the sanctions but said
   other countries are being sanctioned as well.
   She said the U.S. was acting under the Child Soldiers Protection Act,
   which was signed into law in 2008 by President George W. Bush.
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