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Under the younger Kabila, foreign forces gradually departed and the Congolese parties managed to reach an agreement for a transitional national government that included the three major belligerent groups, a number of smaller ex-rebel movements and representatives of civil society and the political opposition.
CNN: Explainer: Behind Congolese conflict
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As part of such an accommodation, the Islamists would probably have to agree not to impose sharia law on Somalia, at any rate under a transitional government of national unity.
ECONOMIST: Somalia
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The bloom came off that false rose on Sunday when Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council, repeatedly declared his government's fealty to shariah, Islam's brutally repressive, totalitarian political-military-legal doctrine.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy