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The latest peace deal for eastern Congo may end up like its predecessors, in renewed regional wars

A ceasefire in Congo's eastern war was agreed on 23 January by the Kinshasa government and armed factions from North and South Kivu after a three-week conference in Goma. The arguments were heated but no solution was found for the underlying problem: the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), which consists of soldiers of the former regime in Rwanda and its genocidal allies in the Rwandan Hutu militias and Interhamwe....

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Rwanda, Apollinaire Malu-Malu, United States, Laurent Nkunda, Séraphin Mirindi, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, George Mirindi, Rebel fighters go home, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Patrick Masunzu, Chikez Diemu, Joseph Kabila, Alan Doss, Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda, Interhamwe, Commission Electoral Indépendante, Conseil National pour la Défense du Peuple, Patriotes Résistants du Congo, Union des Jeunes Patriotes Sacrifiés, Forces Républicaines Fédéralistes, Raia Mutomboki, Le Potentiel

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