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Government warned to pull troops behind agreed lines

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    The Joint Military Commission (JMC), a multi-national military body set up to monitor the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has urged Kinshasa to withdraw troops stationed behind rebel lines in violation of key accords, AFP reported Monday. “The truth is that these towns, Rutuku, Mulembwe, Musipi and Mpala [in the southeastern Katanga province] are no longer in the hands of the [rebel] Congolese Rally for Democracy [Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie - RCD],” General Njuki Mwaniki, the Kenyan chairman of the JMC, was quoted as saying on Monday in the rebels’ headquarter town of Goma. While Mwaniki refused further comment, in a letter dated 9 July and obtained Monday by AFP in Kigali, he warned the commander of DRC government forces that the “occupation” by his troops of these places “constituted a serious and flagrant violation of the Lusaka accord,” according to AFP.

    On 6 July, the UN Security Council warned rebels and the government to pull back their troops in line with the Lusaka accord.

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