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Rebel attempts at harmony to continue

[Mauritania] A Senegalese illegal migrant in a holding centre in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, whose journey to the Canary Islands ended when the boat he was riding in broke down. He is awaiting repatriation to Senegal. [Date picture taken: 01/06/2006]
Marie-Pierre Olphand/IRIN
Un migrant sénégalais dans un centre de détention de Nouadhibou, en Mauritanie. La traversée vers les îles Canaries a pris fin lorsque son embarcation a connu une avarie.
The RCD factions have agreed to set up a reconciliation committee to iron out their differences, and all three groups have agreed to set up a political negotiation committee, comprising three members each, to travel to Lusaka for pre-summit talks, AFP news agency reported. That arrangement will serve Uganda’s purposes well as the backer of two of the groups, one observer at the Kabale meeting told IRIN on Monday. The three groups have convened another meeting for Wednesday 16 June in Kabale to draw up a list of all demands and a strategy for the whole process ahead - a package regarding a cessation of hostilities, a ceasefire, an inter-Congolese debate and a peace conference for the Great Lakes region, according to a report on Belgian RTBF radio on Sunday. The process is intended to ultimately result in the unification of the armed opposition’s infrastructures, the report added.

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