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DR Congo backs ‘guns for bikes’

Jul 14, 06 | Comment

Kinshasha, Congo - A scheme under which gunmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo are given bicycles in exchange for their weapons is being extended due to its success.

Ngoy Mulunda, a pastor in the south-eastern Katanga region, says he has been given some 6,500 weapons in the past year, which he has destroyed.

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