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Kinshasa claims "double standards" over ceasefire violations

    NAIROBI

    President Laurent-Desire Kabila's aide de camp Colonel Eddy Kapend at the weekend denounced what he called the "double standards of the international community, in particular the USA". "The fronts are not stable because they are attacked by the aggressors on a regular basis," Kapend said over state radio. He added that the rebels had captured localities in Kasai and Equateur Provinces, including Basankusu, last
    week, since the ceasefire agreement. "The international community
    scandalously did not say a single word" on these, yet complains of ceasefire violations when the government "repulses the enemy forces from an unjustly-occupied locality", Kapend claimed.

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