Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have started withdrawing from two towns captured from government troops after a deal was brokered by Uganda.
The M23 group is giving up gains from a lightning offensive carried out in the past week, but there was no indication it was ending its eight-month-old insurgency.
The revolt against Congo's government has raised the risk of all-out war in a borderlands region dogged by nearly two decades of conflict that has killed about five million people and is fuelled by competition over mineral resources.
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