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Zimbabwe denies existence of Ikela agreement

    NAIROBI
    Zimbabwe has denied that it reached an agreement with Rwanda and the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) earlier this week on getting supplies to its soldiers besieged at Ikela airport in return for withdrawing from the town of Bokungu. Harare denied the existence of such an agreement and said it would continue to use force to resupply its troops in Ikela, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Thursday. A Zimbabwean defence spokesman said the rebels had leaked the story of such an agreement "to make it seem that Zimbabwe had reached a unilateral agreement, to cause a split in the alliance backing Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila," the report added.

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