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Africa Subsaharan
Rwanda says it repulsed Hutu rebel attack from DR Congo
2012-12-04
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Rwandan troops repulsed an attack by Rwandan Hutu beturbanned goons who crossed back into the country from bases in eastern 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...
, Kigali's foreign minister said Sunday.

Rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) attacked a game warden's camp near the border at Kinigi, Louise Mushikiwabo said, the second such attack in recent days.

"FDLR attack on Kinigi warden camp today was repulsed" by Rwandan troops, Mushikiwabo said in a message posted on Twitter.

Border security had "been reinforced to guard against insecurity" from eastern DR Congo, she added.

The FDLR are an ethnic Hutu rebel group that fled Rwanda into DR Congo after having taken part in the 1994 genocide of mainly Tutsi Rwandans. They have been based there ever since.
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