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Rwanda denies North Kivu troop build-up

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    A Rwandan "goodwill mission" visiting Uganda on Tuesday denied that Rwanda was massing troops in North Kivu province. At least two Rwandan battalions have been deployed recently north of Rutshuru, according to media reports. "We are not massing troops in North Kivu. We have had these troops there before," the Panafrican News Agency (PANA) quoted Charles Mirugande, secretary-general of the ruling Rwandese Patriotic Front as saying in Kampala. The Rwandan delegation was in Kampala "to forge a peace deal with the Ugandan leadership", according to Ugandan radio.

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