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The Goma-based rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) on Tuesday reportedly captured two towns in Kasai Occidental. “After weeks of provocations by Kabila’s troops and his allies on our positions at Kole and Dekese, we decided to take back Idumbe and Longakolo port on the way to Ilebo town,” RCD Vice-President Moise Nyarugabo told IRIN on Wednesday. He said DRC troops had been using the towns to bring in reinforcements. “If they try to attack our positions again we shall advance further,” he warned. In Harare, the Zimbabwean army confirmed the fall of Idumbe and threatened to retaliate for what it called a direct threat to the capital Kinshasa, the Associated Press reported. Idumbe is 375 miles east of Kinshasa.
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