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Bemba claims successes in Equateur fighting

    NAIROBI

    The rebel Mouvement de liberation du congo (MLC) claimed to have killed at least 210 government soldiers in renewed fighting in Equateur Province on the northwestern front on Wednesday, Reuters news agency reported. MLC leader Jean-Pierre Bemba said 150 soldiers of the Forces Armees Congolaises (FAC) had been killed when the MLC repelled a government attack on the rebel-held fishing village of Kuka, and another 60 in an ambush on the Congo River at Libanda, Reuters reported, adding that there was no independent confirmation of the claims. Bemba also claimed the MLC had killed 1,280 government and allied soldiers, and taken 516 prisoners of war, all Congolese, since Kinshasa launched an offensive in the northwest in October, the report stated.

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