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Rebels hail cooperation agreement

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    A senior official of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), Bizima Karaha, has described the Kabale agreement to form a united rebel front against President Laurent-Desire Kabila as "extremely important". The RCD, the RCD-Mouvement de liberation (RCD-ML) and the Mouvement de liberation du Congo (MLC) rebels agreed to set up two working commissions, one on political and diplomatic issues and another on
    military concerns, but not to unite as one movement, news media reported. "It will also help the non-armed opposition to join us and ... we shall make a very big, positive impact in the Congo," Karaha told Rwandan radio on Tuesday. "Hopefully, we think that through the national dialogue...we will be in a position to find the principle for legitimacy and we will be
    able to set up a new political order," RCD-ML leader Ernest Wamba dia Wamba added.

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