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Rebel groups agree to discuss united front

[Senegal] Casamance : Displaced children from southern Casamance play into the used waters in the poor district of Nema 2, outside the regional capital Ziguinchor. Some 23,000 people live in the overcrowded place, most of them have fled the rebels of the Pierre Holtz/IRIN
Sand filled with toxic lead is being removed from the neighbourhood of Ngane Diaw.
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    The three rebel factions fighting the government of President Laurent Desire Kabila on Tuesday agreed to meet each other and their Rwandan and Ugandan backers in the southwestern Ugandan town of Kabale in an effort to form a united front ahead of ceasefire talks planned for Lusaka later this month, the Associated Press reported. It said Bizima Karaha, a leader of the mainstream Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), backed by Rwanda, had shifted from his refusal on Monday to talk with the two other factions: the splinter group backing ousted RCD leader, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, and the Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC) of Jean-Pierre Bemba. He initially did not accept they had equal standing with his group.

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