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Rebel Breakdowns in the DRC?

There are serious divisions between factions in the CNDP, the main rebel group that has been waging war against the Democratic Republic of the Congo's troops and wreaking havoc throughout the eastern DRC. These fissures threaten to break apart the rebel opposition. Although Kinshasa probably sees this as good news — Laurent Nkunda's sometimes-ruthless CNDP troops have consistently put the DRC military on its heels — if the rebel troops fall apart it will simply mean more conflicts among more groups with more agendas and little chance of peace, the prospects for which are frankly slim to begin with.

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