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    NAIROBI

    Prominent opposition leader Joseph Olenghakoy on Monday called for the involvement of France, Belgium and the US in facilitating the inter-Congolese political dialogue scheduled to take place under the Lusaka peace deal. "If, as everyone says, they are behind the war, one must bring them back to the territory of peace," Reuters news agency reported Olenghakoy - who is president of the FONUS (Forces novatrices pour l'union et la solidarite) party - as telling a news conference in his
    Kinshasa home. Olenghakoy - who was released from jail in June after serving one year of a 15-year sentence for flouting a ban on political activity - added that the national debate "should take place in a country in which human rights are well established. It should not be held in an African country". Olenghakoy also accused Kabila's allies in the DRC conflict - Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia - of plundering the country's
    mineral resources.

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