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Rebels ban honorifics

    NAIROBI

    The radio also said the rebel authorities had banned the use of honorifics, both in rebel-held territory and the rest of the country. “Mr Laurent-Desire Kabila, no longer being the president of the DRC, can no longer be called excellency or president of the republic,” the radio said. He could be referred to as “Mr president of the People’s Power Committees of which he is the founder” or simply as “Mr Kabila”. The title “excellency” was no longer applicable to members of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), the radio added.

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