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DR Congo - Civilians welcome army into territory previously held by M23 rebels / Delegation of army generals and ministers visit town occupied by M23 rebels / Government official confirms army repelled armed assailants in capital / Troops in action as they repel armed assailants in capital
Civilians welcome army into territory previously held by M23 rebels
Kibumba - 27 October
1. Mid of soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo military (FARDC) being greeted by civilians as they enter the town of Kibumba after driving...
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Rwanda - Richardson arrives for briefing
US special envoy to Zaire Bill Richardson is due to arrive in Botswana on Tuesday (6/5) to brief Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and heads of state of the South African Development Community (SADC) on the situation in Zaire.
Richardson...
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USA: WASHINGTON: WILLIAM PERRY PRESS CONFERENCE ON ZAIRE CRISIS
English/Nat
U-S Defense Secretary William Perry says the massive flow of refugees returning home to Rwanda could alter the U-N sponsored relief operation to Central Africa.
The U-N estimates at least 200-thousand Hutu refugees have...
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USA: FEWER TROOPS TO BE SENT TO CENTRAL AFRICA PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
The U-S is now to send fewer troops into central Africa following the return to Rwanda of hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees.
Defence Secretary William Perry said no combat troops will be despatched, only support troops...
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Israel - Israel Prepares To Send Aid To Rwanda
On Sunday night (24/7), Israel despatched a medical aid team to
the Zaire-Rwandan border as part of the international effort to
alleviate the Rwandan refugee crisis.
gvs truck with supplies
soldiers alongside truck
truck being...
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Rwanda - Refugees
Sporadic small arms and mortar fire blocked the evacuation of
refugees in Rwanda's capital on Sunday (29/5), but two relief
flights were able to land with badly needed emergency food
supplies. Food and medical stocks are now critically...
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Refugees flee suspected Rwandan troops
1. Wide shot aerial village of Kanyabayonga, north of Goma
2. Mid shot huts
3. Roadblock outside village
4. Sign for Kanyabayonga
5. Woman walking with firewood
6. Various people outside hut
7. Close-up family sitting outside hut
8. Mid...
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SOUTH AFRICA: CONGO'S JUSTICE MINISTER REJECTS CEASEFIRE CALL
English/Nat
The Democratic Republic of Congo's justice minister on Monday rejected calls on the continent for a ceasefire.
Mwenze Kongolo said Uganda and Rwanda must first withdraw their troops from Congolese territory.
It followed a...
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RWANDA: UN CRITICISED OVER HANDLING OF 1994 RWANDA MASSACRE
Eng/Tutsi/Nat
The Vice-President of Rwanda criticised the United Nations Friday, of not doing enough to bring the masterminds of the 1994 Rwanda massacre to justice.
More than half a million Rwandans died in the slaughter.
Major General...
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Fabius condemns violence as M23 rebels seize Goma
1. Wide of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius arriving at news conference
2. Wide of Fabius seated
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister:
"Our position is to condemn the M23 attacks and ask the United...
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Rwanda - Fears for refugees
Fighting raged across eastern Zaire on Thursday (24/10), nearing the high plateau town of Bukavu where authorities fear a humanitarian crisis as relief food supplies for tens of thousands of fleeing refugees are almost exhausted.
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France - Lanzade On French Operation In Rwanda
French forces in Rwandan border areas have uncovered "some mass
graves" in the southwestern Cyangugu region, a ranking French
military officer announced on Friday (24/6). General Raymond
Germanos, deputy chief of the armed forces general...
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RWANDA: UN PEACEKEEPING MISSION IS EXTENDED BY 3 MONTHS
English/Nat
The Rwandan government has agreed to extend the United Nations mission for an another three months.
The U-N mandate was due to have expired on Friday.
The peacekeepers can now stay on - but the number of troops is to be...
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UN peacekeepers troops move into flashpoint town
Kanyabayonga, 160 kilometres North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo's border with Rwanda (DRC side)
1. Wide shot of almost deserted town (refugees have fled fighting over past several weeks)
2. Villagers looking through looted...
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RWANDA: REACTION TO FIRING SQUAD EXECUTIONS OF 22 PEOPLE
French/Eng/Rus/Nat
Thousands of Rwandans gathered around the country Friday to watch firing squads execute 22 people convicted of playing major roles in the genocide of 1994.
The enforcement of the death penalty has been condemned by...
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Zaire - Refugee crisis
Refugees continued to flee from strife-torn areas of Eastern Zaire on Thursday (14/11) as fighting between Zairean Tutsi rebels and Rwandan Hutu militias flared up around Goma. Overhead the sounds of shelling could be heard as refugees...
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A Minnesota law professor who was imprisoned in Rwanda for challenging the official version of the country's 1994 genocide got a big hug from his wife and cheers from supporters as he arrived home Tuesday.
HEADLINE: Professor, once in prison in Rwanda, returns to Minn.
CAPTION: A Minnesota law professor who was imprisoned in Rwanda for challenging the official version of the country's 1994 genocide got a big hug from his wife and cheers...
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RWANDA: 36 PEOPLE KILLED IN LATEST OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENCE
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36 people were killed in Rwanda on Monday in the latest outbreaks of violence to hit the war-ravaged country.
Attackers - believed to be Hutu militiamen - opened fire on employees on their way to work at the national brewery...
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+4:3 Police reax as former Rwandan spy chief found dead
Police in South Africa said on Thursday that Rwanda's former spy chief has been found dead, possibly strangled, in a hotel in Johannesburg.
Rwandan opposition leaders immediately accused President Paul Kagame of ordering his...
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Rwanda - Kouchner Appeals For Killing To Stop
Former French government minister Bernard Kouchner on Saturday
(14/5) held discussions with Rwanda's warring parties in a bid to
secure the release of civilians trapped in the capital Kigali.
Former French government minister for...
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UGANDA: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN VISIT
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The U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned that the organisation may only work from now on in welcoming countries.
Annan made the remarks while visiting Uganda after he was snubbed by government officials in...
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WRAP UN and EU envoys on DRC crisis talks ADDS UN chief, leaders
1. Wide shot of conference room
2. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni entering conference room
3. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo shaking hands with unidentified delegate
4. Mid shot of UN and African Union delegations, US Assistant...
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Impoverished workers face dangerous conditions and little pay in DRC mines
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to vote on Wednesday on the final version of US legislation on 'conflict minerals', precious minerals used to finance local wars like the 'blood diamonds' of West Africa.
The...
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BELGIUM: EU MINISTERS HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING ON CRISIS IN ZAIRE
English/Nat
European Union ministers and aid agencies held an emergency meeting in Brussels Thursday to seek ways of getting aid to more than a million refugees trapped by fighting in Eastern Zaire.
They agreed resources were in place...