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Kabila reshuffles military

    NAIROBI
    Kabila has appointed new leaders for the military and has named his son as army chief, news agencies said. A presidential decree read on Congolese state television on Friday said that Lieutenant-General Sylvestre Lwesha was now the chief of defence staff and head of the armed forces, replacing Faustin Munene. Kabila's son, Major-General Joseph Kabila, who was previously Munene's deputy, has been appointed chief of land forces, the television said. Munene has become chief of the country's small air force. Kabila, who remains the armed forces commander-in-chief, also appointed commanders for the country's eight "military regions" created by an earlier presidential decree.

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