The second vice-president of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), Moise Nyarugabo, has said RCD troops are ready if Kabila’s forces launch an attack against them. He told the BBC Kinyarwanda service on Monday that Kabila was “preparing for war”, and while the RCD would not be the first to attack, it would fight back if attacked. “We believe that those agreements [Lusaka] are useful, but it all depends on the international community condemning Kabila and stopping him from launching attacks, insulting others, boasting and threatening,” Nyarugabo added. “If they don’t tell him to stop, he will attack first, but then we shall fight him. His boasting could be the beginning of the end.”
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