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Rebel faction condemns French rapprochement

    NAIROBI

    France’s stated intention of resuming institutional, state-to-state relations with DRC - contingent on the restoration of peace - was on Sunday condemned by the Goma faction of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), which said the French were now supporting a person they once described as “genocide perpetrator”. An RCD spokesman, cited by rebel-controlled Uvira radio, said the French objective was to stop the ascension to power of a group of English-speaking leaders in Kinshasa.

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