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DRC threatens to attack Bujumbura

    NAIROBI

    DRC army chief Major Faustin Munene on Monday threatened to "attack Bujumbura" in retaliation for what he described as the "active role of Burundian forces in the war".

    DRC state television reported him as claiming Burundian military helicopters had been flying over Baraka, near Fizi. It said Munene "warns that Congo, having thus been placed in a
    position of collective and legitimate self-defence, will not hesitate to attack Bujumbura which, incidentally, is only a few kilometres away from Uvira".

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