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Information Minister Lambert Mende told Reuters that the fighters had been "driven out and suffered heavy losses".
BBC: DR Congo forces clash with militia in Lubumbashi
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"We know very well that these men have links to M23, " said Lambert Mende, a DRC government spokesman.
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Government spokesman Lambert Mende said the government did not have much confidence in the rebel ceasefire, Reuters news agency reports.
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"It was a provocative attack but our forces handled it very well, they have pushed the rebels back, " Mr. Mende said.
WSJ: Fighting Breaks Out in Congo
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Lumumbaville will be built in Kassai-Oriental province, the birthplace of Mr Lumumba, to "honour the memory of a great Congolese statesman", Mr Mende said.
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Johnson's DNA sequence was a 99.7 percent match to the Mende people, and Kittles says his database is so large that most clients have a direct match.
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Mende said the arrested men also had links to former Congolese strongman Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the country, then known as Zaire, for more than three decades.
CNN: South African police seize alleged Congo coup plotters
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At the same conference, ZDNet covered a talk by German researchers Enno Rey and Daniel Mende, showing how they could break the encryption on two generations of Cisco Wireless LANs.
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Lambert Mende, Congo's information minister, said the M23 rebels attacked the national army positions first, in an attempt to cut off the main road, north of Goma, which is expected to be used for the planned deployment of the new U.N. brigade.
WSJ: Fighting Breaks Out in Congo
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Lambert Mende, Congo's information minister, said separately that the M23 rebels attacked the national army positions first, in an attempt to cut off the main road, north of Goma, which is expected to be used for the planned deployment of the new U.N. brigade.
WSJ: Fighting Breaks Out in Congo