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RCD to sign peace deal - Chiluba

[Sudan] Displaced women in Intifada camp, Nyala, southern Darfur. December 2003. IRIN
Many displaced women in Darfur have suffered extensively.
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    The government of President Laurent-Desire Kabila and the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) will be the only two Congolese signatories to a peace agreement expected to be signed at a heads of state summit next week, chief SADC mediator and Zambian President Frederick Chiluba said on Thursday at the end of a meeting in South Africa on the DRC conflict attended by regional leaders. The summit is now scheduled for 26 June in the Zambian capital, Lusaka.

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