Nepal PM says Maoists to join government in February
Nepal’s former Maoist rebels will join an interim government in February, the Himalayan nation’s prime minister said, capping a fast-moving peace process that is ending a decade-old civil war. Earlier this week, the Maoists joined an interim parliament, began handing over weapons and dissolved their parallel government and “people’s courts” under a November peace pact aimed at ending an insurgency in which over 13,000 people died. Full Story