THE rebel Congo Liberation Front (FLC) and Mai-Mai tribal militia leaders have agreed to set up a peacekeeping force to operate in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the FLC leader said. Jean-Pierre Bemba, a businessman who now leads one of the two main rebel groups which have been fighting the Kinshasa regime, said that his movement and Mai-Mai leaders signed a pact on Wednesday in a town near the Ugandan border. “This accord, which was also ratified by Congolese civic leaders, was signed at midnight on March 21 at Butembo, during round-table talks on pacifying of Nord-Kivu Province,” Bemba said. It will lead to the creation of a Mai-Mai special division which will be incorporated into the Congolese Liberation Army, armed wing of the FLC,” he added. – AFP