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Troops to stay in DRC as long as security compromised

Vice-President Paul Kagame, vowing that genocide will never occur again in his country, has said his troops will stay in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as long as Rwanda's national security is under threat. Addressing a news conference on Saturday, ahead of the fifth anniversary of the genocide unleashed on 6 April 1994, he said there had been much progress in Rwanda although the scars of the genocide would remain for a long time. Militarily, many of the problems had been solved "by elimination of the insurgency" within the country, he said, according to Rwandan radio. However, there was still a threat from insurgents in DRC. "So we shall be in Congo until a solution is found...and, for as long as security is a problem, we shall have to deal with it," Kagame told reporters.

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