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Rebels reportedly retreat from Ikela

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    The military head of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie, Jean-Pierre Ondekane, on Thursday admitted some of his troops were forced to withdraw from the Ikela region of Equateur province, after Zimbabwean troops managed to control river routes in the area, AFP reported. “They [the Zimbabweans] came by the river, went round our positions and reached as far as Ikela,” he was quoted as saying. “Now fighting is raging at the airport where the encircling took place.” He said he had asked his vanguard units to make a “strategic retreat”. AFP reported that fighting was still continuing in the town and that it had not “completely fallen” to the Zimbabwean troops.

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