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BUNIA, Congo (Reuters) - French troops trying to end factional violence in Congo's Bunia town seized an abandoned nearby village to tighten security on Wednesday and announced a local militia had agreed to quit Bunia later in the day.Shortly after dawn at least 40 soldiers backed by five armored vehicles began setting up positions at a Dele village, a ramshackle settlement of crude concrete and mud buildings.
"It is a strong signal for all the militias that the force holds the strategic points around Bunia," said Major Xavier Pons, a spokesman for a French-led international peace force.
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Seizing an abandoned village and calling it a victory: how... French.
AP:
The Congolese government and two rebel factions agreed to halt fighting in an eastern region and pull back from newly occupied areas Thursday, hours after a battle for a key town there killed dozens of people.The cease-fire was signed in neighboring Burundi by the Congolese government, the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy, or RCD, and the government-allied Congolese Rally for Democracy-ML, or RCD-ML.
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