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Police clash with opposition supporters

    NAIROBI

    Police in Kinshasa clashed with opposition activists and students on Sunday before breaking up a meeting of the opposition FONUS (Forces novatrices pour l’union et la solidarité) party of Joseph Olengakhoy, Reuters reported. “There have been clashes with the police. They have already arrested 23 people outside my house,” Reuters quoted Olenghakoy as saying. The opposition leader, who was released from jail in June 1999 after serving one year of a 15-year sentence for flouting a ban on political activity, had previously held several meetings with his supporters, the report added. Olenghakoy recently boycotted political talks convened by Kabila, and has said that the inter-Congolese dialogue provided for in the Lusaka accord “should take place in a country in which human rights are well established” - and not in Africa.

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