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Government troops trying to rescue hostages

    JOHANNESBURG

    Angolan rebels holding three Portuguese construction workers hostage in the remote Cabinda enclave in northern Angola said on Thursday that the Angolan army had launched an offensive to try to rescue the men, AP reported on Monday. The workers were abducted a month ago.

    A spokesman for the armed separatist movement FLEC-FAC was quoted as saying that his group would let the captives go only when Portugal acknowledged the Cabinda people’s right to self-determination. The spokesman said that Angolan government troops started moving in on the rebels on 30 January. Cabinda is an enclave wedged between Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which was declared Angolan territory during Portugal’s former colonial administration.

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