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RCD vows to fight guerrillas who threaten its allies

    NAIROBI

    The RCD has vowed to fight guerrilla forces which are threatening the security of its allies in the DRC conflict. The head of the RCD's department of the interior, Joseph Mudumbi, said his movement would "fight Rwandan Hutu extremist militias, the Burundi Hutu rebels of the Forces pour la defense de la democratie (FDD) and the Uganda rebels using northern and southern Kivu provinces of eastern Congo as launching pads
    for their cross-border raids", according to the Rwanda News Agency.

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