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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A one-time warlord and failed presidential candidate whose loyalist fighters battled government troops in Congo's capital flew from the Central African nation for medical treatment overseas Wednesday, the United Nations said.
Jean-Pierre Bemba left for Portugal after midnight for a checkup on a leg fracture he suffered several months earlier, the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in war-battered Congo said in a statement. The government earlier had refused to let Bemba leave the country for medical treatment at a hospital in Lisbon.
Violent clashes between his militia and government last month in Kinshasa left at least 200 dead and sent Bemba into hiding. The country's chief prosecutor had issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of high treason because of the clashes.
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