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Rebel groups due to meet in Tanzania

    NAIROBI

    The three rebel groups - mainstream Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), Ernest Wamba dia Wamba's breakaway RCD faction and the Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC) - have been invited by Tanzania for discussions in Dar es Salaam regarding the Lusaka ceasefire accord.

    So far, none of the rebel groups has signed the agreement and some reports suggested ex-Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere was attempting to mediate between the three in a bid to persuade them to sign. The initiative appeared to be at the behest of the Tanzanian government, rather than the Nyerere Foundation. A spokesman for the Foundation told IRIN on Thursday he knew nothing of the rebel meeting. "We don't have anything to do with it as far as I'm aware," he said.

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