A rift among rebels

Some want a ceasefire, others insist on a solution, with personalities as divisive as policies

The main rebel movement in eastern Congo has split, with one faction seeking a ceasefire with the government, the other promising to fight on. The more militant rebel, General Laurent Nkunda, hitherto the leader of the Tutsi militia, the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP), may have won his war but lost the peace. President Joseph Kabila's invitation to Kigali to send in troops to round up Rwandan dissidents in eastern Congo may have dangerous consequences.

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Laurent Nkunda, Joseph Kabila, Rwandan, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria, Désiré Kamanzi, Bosco Ntaganda, Jean Munyampenda, Célestin Mbuyu, James Kabarebe, Esaïe Munyakazi, American, Stewart Andrew Scott, Thomas Lubanga, Kinshasa keeps the door ajar, Lambert Mendé, Bertrand Bisimwa, Nicolas Sarkozy, France, Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple, Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo, Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda, Laurent Nkunda et la rébellion du Kivu, Editions Karthala, Patriotes Résistants Congolais, Le Monde, L'Avenir

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