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Angolan soldiers have invaded the southwest of the neighboring Republic of Congo in pursuit of rebels and allegedly taken Congolese troops hostage.
Congolese troops who were dispatched from Dolisie to Kimongo were reported to have been kidnapped and led over the border into Angola.
"Our soldiers were taken hostage. Up to this morning (Thursday), things haven't changed, so they are still in the hands of the Angolan army," said Hermann Bouess a local journalist told AFP.
"Among the arrested soldiers, there are a colonel and a captain," Bouess said, adding that the "Angolan troops were pursuing (rebels) of the Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave (FLEC) on to Congolese territory, which they use as a rear base".
Christian Samuel Sansa, an officer in the paramilitary police based in Dolisie, Congo's second military region confirmed this report, but could not say how many Congolese soldiers had been taken, while a source in the military general staff refused to comment on the affair.
The Congo Republic, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a non-aggression pact and in 1997, Angolan troops helped President Denis Sassou Nguesso to fight his way back to power in a civil war.