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Rebels surround troops

    JOHANNESBURG

    DRC rebels said on Thursday they had surrounded 3,000 Zimbabwean and Namibian soldiers allied with government forces after they refused to surrender their guns, Associated Press reported.

    Kien-Kiey Mulumba, a rebel spokesman, said government troops had launched attacks in and around Ikela, 700 km northwest of the capital, Kinshasa, in a bid to link up with their allies who were entrenched at the town’s small airport. The rest of the town was in rebel hands, he said.

    “The Zimbabwean general at the airport is refusing to surrender. We offered him a land corridor if he leaves weapons and heavy artillery behind,” Mulumba said on the telephone from the eastern rebel stronghold of Goma.

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