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"Boiling cauldron" in Kivus not addressed

    NAIROBI
    The report, however, warned that the Lusaka agreement failed to adequately deal with complex issues specific to eastern Congo, including the manipulation of ethnic differences, land rights and the question of citizen status for Congolese Tutsis. A more coherent strategy for addressing the "boiling cauldron" in the Kivus was needed. If issues for which the ethnic Tutsi Banyamulenge forces were fighting were not addressed in the resolution of the conflict, "a third war could erupt some time in the not-too-distant future," it said. [The full report and Lusaka ceasefire agreement are available at http://www.usip.org/]

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