RCD spokesperson Crispin Kabasele Tshimanga, speaking from the eastern city of Goma, the rebels' headquarters, said Saturday the government had again moved troops in violation of a ceasefire inked Thursday.
"Many government aircraft left Mbuji-Maye (in central DRC) for Beni and Bunia (in the northeast) Friday and Saturday to transport government troops and foreign soldiers, whose nationality isn't clearly established," Tshimanga said in Nairobi.
"If the United Nations mission in DRC and the international community don't stop these movements, the Bujumbura ceasefire will not hold," he said.
The RCD had already charged Friday the government had violated a clause in the truce in the Nord-Kivu region, which bars troop movements.
The rival rebel group, the Congolese-Rally for Democracy - Liberation Movement (RCD-ML), traded accusations with the RCD, saying its Rwandan backers had crossed the border and were involved in fighting in Nord-Kivu.
While the RDC - the biggest and most powerful rebel group in the former Zaire - is backed by Rwanda, the RCD-ML gets support from the DRC government.
Despite the signing of a final peace pact for DRC last April, which formally ended a four-and-a-half year war, fighting rages on between the rebel groups aided by the government backers in the mineral-rich east. - Sapa-AFP.
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