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Kabila accused of rearming

    NAIROBI

    Rwandan Vice-President Paul Kagame on Wednesday accused DRC President Laurent-Desire Kabila of taking advantage of delays in the implementation of the Lusaka ceasefire by rearming his forces. “Kabila is rearming. He has been purchasing a lot of military equipment, he has been reorganising his forces,” Reuters reported Kagame as saying. Ugandan security sources and Congolese rebels have claimed that Kabila received two shiploads of arms and equipment from China, India and an unknown Arab country, as well as buying six modified Mig-21 fighter jets, the semi-official Ugandan ‘New Vision’ newspaper reported on Wednesday.

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