Meanwhile, attempts to unite three rebel factions ahead of the Lusaka summit have failed, Uganda’s ‘New Vision’ newspaper reported on Tuesday. It said Ugandan, Rwandan and Tanzanian officials in Kampala had on Monday failed to “harmonise the differences” among the factions because the RCD faction led by Ilunga had boycotted the meeting. Ilunga’s group instead flew to Lusaka where it reportedly presented itself as the “de facto RCD delegation,” the newspaper said. The other rebel factions are the RCD-Kisangani group led by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and the Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC) of Jean-Pierre Bemba. RCD-Goma officials had recently told IRIN the three factions had reconciled.
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