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Government recaptures three northwestern towns

    NAIROBI

    DRC government forces have recaptured three towns in the northwest, Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC) rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba said today. He told the Associated Press that a week of bombing forced the withdrawal of his forces from Gemena, Businga and Libenge. Bemba said they had fallen back to Lisala. “We are fighting Central Africans, Sudanese, Chadians, Interahamwe, but virtually no Congolese,” AFP reported him as saying yesterday. “We are being bombed every day by Sudanese Antonovs. The Chadians now have tanks which come from Libya, and CAR is supporting Kabila.”

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