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Africa

Page last updated at 19:19 GMT, Friday, 10 October 2008 20:19 UK

L-R: Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Thabo Mbeki hold hands
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DR Congo's leader makes a televised appeal for people in the east to take up arms against rebel general Laurant Nkunda.

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