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SADC to offer non-military help

    JOHANNESBURG

    SADC leaders have agreed to supply war-torn Angola with soldiers' uniforms and human and other material needs, media reports said on Thursday.

    Quoting sources at the SADC summit that ended on Wednesday in Maputo, the reports said the leaders agreed that assistance to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' embattled government should be humanitarian and material, but not military.

    Dos Santos reportedly told his SADC counterparts at the summit that he did not require military assistance because his army was coping in its battles with the rebel UNITA movement.

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