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[Cote d'Ivoire] Boy shows painting calling for guns to be banned at workshop on national reconciliation in the frontline town of Tiebissou, September 2001. IRIN
Un petit Ivoirien lors d’un atelier sur la réconciliation nationale expose sa peinture appelant à une interdiction des armes
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    President Laurent-Desire Kabila said on state television yesterday (Wednesday) that Mayi-Mayi militia armed by his government had captured the rebel-held town of Mwenga some 70 km southwest of Bukavu in South Kivu. Meanwhile, the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) said its forces were advancing around Penge, some 50 km north of Kabinda in Kasai Oriental, AFP reported yesterday. AFP also quoted RCD military commander Jean-Pierre Ondekane in Kisangani as saying yesterday that his forces had captured Pepa south of the Katangan town of Moba. There was no independent confirmation of the situation on the ground, however.

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