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Kalemie under RCD control, fighting reported in Mboko

School-children peep through the holes of their school-building in Lokanja Lina Nkoy village, Orientale province, Democratic Republic of Congo, 30 May 2006. The government is responsible for paying teachers' salaries and providing benches, tables and clas Hugo Rämi/IRIN
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    Further south, the Katangese town of Kalemie is firmly under the control of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), sources in the area told IRIN. The DRC government had earlier claimed to have recaptured the town. The sources also reported heavy fighting involving Mayi-Mayi warriors in the Mboko area, some 60 km south of Uvira.

    The missionary news agency MISNA on Wednesday reported the movement of military trucks at Rwanda’s Ruzizi border point with Bukavu in eastern DRC. It claimed Rwandan soldiers were being trucked daily into eastern DRC, and upon arrival in Bukavu were dividing into two convoys: one northwest towards Bunyakiri and the other southwest in the direction of Walungu. The agency also claimed DRC government forces launched an attack on the town of Shabunda, some 270 km west of Bukavu, on Tuesday night.

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