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Opposition calls protest day

    NAIROBI

    Opposition politicians in the DRC have called for a stay at home protest on Saturday, 8 April, to denounce delays in implementing the peace deal signed by the warring parties last August. Joseph Olenghankoy, leader of the Force novatrices pour l'union et la solidarite (FONUS), called for the protest in defiance of Kabila's ban on political activity by unregistered parties, Reuters news agency reported. "We want to mobilise the people to
    support the Lusaka accords... to say no to the dictatorship of Kabila and no to the dictatorship of the rebels," he said. Olenghankoy, who was jailed in 1998 for "threatening state security" and released last June, said he stood by his call for Saturday's protest despite being briefly detained last week. Another leading opposition party, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UPDS), called for a paralysing "dead town"
    protest on Saturday, another on 17 May and one a month until President Kabila implemented the Lusaka peace deal, the report added. "Mr Kabila must stop being a major obstacle to national dialogue among the Congolese," Reuters quoted a party statement as saying.

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