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Rebels fail to sign ceasefire

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    The Lusaka ceasefire accord was thrown into disarray over the weekend, after the three rebel factions refused to sign it. Leaders of the six countries involved in the DRC conflict put their names to the accord, but the mainstream rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD)refused to acknowledge the signature of its ousted president Ernest
    Wamba dia Wamba.

    RCD Vice-President Moise Nyarugabo said Wamba could sign in his own right, but not on behalf of the RCD, and called into question the role of the mediator "who allowed Wamba to sneak into the conference hall", the Rwanda News Agency reported. The leader of the third rebel group, Jean-Pierre Bemba who heads the Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC), said he would not sign unless Wamba did, and vowed to continue fighting.

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