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Army claims progress in securing rail line

[DRC] Women waiting at Panzi hospital in Bukavu, South Kivu. [Date picture taken: July 2006] Laudes Mbon/IRIN
Women waiting at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu - one of only two hospitals with 'safe blood' in South Kivu
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    Government troops have captured the railway station at Kibossi, about 50 km west of Brazzaville, in their continuing efforts to clear rebels from the rail line linking the capital with the port city of Pointe-Noire, according to an army spokesman quoted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), on Wednesday. Traffic along the vital rail line has been disrupted due to insecurity over the past six months. Foreign minister states “peace is near” Meanwhile, Minister of Foreign Affairs Rodolphe Adada on Tuesday told Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos in Luanda that conditions in the Congo had improved and peace was now near, news agencies said.

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