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DR Congo Rebels Set Conditions for Goma Pullout
[An Nahar] The M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
said Tuesday they would only withdraw from Goma if the government meets their demands, despite earlier announcing they would pull out of the key eastern city.

The M23 wants the government to dissolve the country's election commission and ensure freedom of movement for opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi among other demands "before a pullout", political leader Jean-Marie Runiga told a presser in Goma.

"If that is done," he said, the M23 will leave Goma "very quickly."

A senior rebel commander had told Agence La Belle France Presse earlier that the M23 would withdraw from the city which the rebels captured a week ago, "in order to start negotiations with the government".

Regional leaders had called at a weekend summit in the capital of neighboring Uganda for the rebels to quit the city by late Monday.

Posted by: Fred 2012-11-28
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=356950