The DRC has warned Rwanda its “reformed” army is ready to resume the offensive against rebels in the east of the country, AFP reported, citing state television. In a broadcast entitled a “warning from President Laurent-Desire Kabila to Rwandan Vice President Paul Kagame”, the television said the army was now “ready to fulfill its mission to liberate” the east. “The aggressors may have won some battles, but not the war,” it said. “Now the response of the Forces armees congolaises (FAC) will be terrible but just. The day the FAC are in Kigali, we will see how arrogant Paul Kagame is then.” The warring sides in the DRC are bound by a ceasefire contained in July’s Lusaka peace accord.
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