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Soldiers in DRC may be freed

    JOHANNESBURG

    Namibian soldiers who have been held as prisoners of war (POWs) in Kigali, Rwanda, may be freed this week, a report in the ‘The Namibian’ said.

    A spokesman for the southern Africa Regional Delegation of the International Confederation of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Harare told IRIN on Wednesday that the release was part of a recent agreement on POWs reached between all sides in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “It is not only related to the Namibians, but all soldiers,” he said.

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