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RCD denies role in priest's murder

    NAIROBI

    The RCD, for its part, denied reports that it was responsible for this week's death of a priest in South Kivu. Karaha told IRIN on Friday that the priest was killed by Mayi-Mayi warriors, on the instructions of Kinshasa, in an attempt to "discredit" the RCD. The Vatican news agency Fides reported on Wednesday that the 30-year-old priest, Remis Pepe, and two civilian watchmen were killed during the attack on a church at Kiliba
    between Bukavu and Uvira on Tuesday evening. It cited local sources as saying the attack, in which the church was burned, was carried out by "Banyamulenge rebels".

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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