The Joint Military Commission (JMC) responsible for implementing the Lusaka peace agreement on Monday cast doubt on Zimbabwean news reports that the Forces armees congolaises (FAC) and its allies had broken the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) siege of government-allied troops at Ikela airport, Equateur Province. The allied forces command in Kinshasa claimed in a statement to have cleared the route to Ikela of rebel forces, news organisations reported. “I have heard nothing on that. I don’t think anything is going on just now in relation to Ikela,” a JMC spokesman told IRIN.
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