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Government again invites rebels to national debate

    NAIROBI

    The DRC government on Thursday said preparations for the Congolese national debate were continuing and again invited the rebel movement, including both incumbent and ousted RCD leaders, Emile Ilunga and Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, to participate, Reuters news agency reported. Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi told a news conference the debate could not include power sharing, but would deal with the legitimisation of
    power, the draft constitution and the liberalisation of political
    activities.

    Yerodia added that the chosen mediators of the national debate - the Italian Catholic San't Egidio order, the Francophonie group and the OAU - had been delayed but would soon arrive in Kinshasa "to make contact with the organising committee of the national debate so that we can reach an agreement on the modalities they have envisaged".

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