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Poaching for meat threatens forest herds GRAPHIC IMAGES
++No re-use/re-sale without clearance++
Central African Republic - May 2007
1. Wide shot of ivory carving market
2. Close up shot of ivory carvings at the market
3. Mid shot of a man holding ivory carvings
4. Mid shot of man carving...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: AID AGENCIES CALL FOR SET UP OF HEALTH PROGRAMMES
Eng/French/Nat
While President Mobutu's army and Laurent Kabila's rebels continue to battle for control, the people of Zaire are dying - from diseases that can easily be prevented and treated.
Aid agencies have called for the setting...
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CONGO: FRENCH SOLDIERS RESCUE CIVILIANS CAUGHT UP IN FIGHTING
Eng/French/Nat
French soldiers have rescued more shaken civilians caught in the fighting in the Congo's capital, Brazzaville.
Clashes flared between government troops and militiamen on Tuesday despite promises of truce talks.
People...
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UN officials, rebels say forces loyal to renegade General seize army camp
1. Travelling shot of displaced people walking from direction of Rumangabo and Rugari, heading toward Goma, 50 kilometres (31 miles) away
2. Various of displaced people walking road carrying their belongings
3. Woman carrying baby on...
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USA: INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS CONTINUE TO STEM SPREAD OF EBOLA VIRUS
1. Various of bodies unloaded off truck into pit
2. Close shot masked medical workers
3. Body taken in sheet into pit
4. Close shot masked medical worker
5. Body wrapped in sheet taken off truck
6. Body taken into pit
7. Body wrapped in...
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Sanctuary on outskirts of Kinshasa is working to save the rare bonobo ape
1. Mother bonobo with baby
2. Bonobo in tree eating banana
3. Close-up feet and hands of bonobo
4. Bonobos squealing
5. Sign to Lola Ya Bonobo conservation centre
6. Various of workers in foreground with bonobos in background behind...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: PEOPLE CELEBRATE END OF PRESIDENT MOBUTU'S RULE
French/Nat
Joyful Zaireans took to the streets of the capital Kinshasa on Friday celebrating the news that autocratic president Mobutu Sese Seko had given up power.
Mobutu handed over control of the country to his aides, retreating to...
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CONGO: REBEL LEADERS READY TO NEGOTIATE WITH KABILA
Eng/French/Nat
Congolese rebels fighting to oust President Laurent Kabila say they are ready to negotiate a cease-fire with the embattled government.
This is the first time the rebels - a coalition of ethnic Tutsi fighters, Rwandan...
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CONGO: BRAZZAVILLE: US ARMY AIRBORNE UNIT ARRIVE UPDATE
English/Nat
A U-S Army airborne unit arrived in Congo, in central Africa on Sunday to prepare for the possible evacuation of Americans and other foreigners from neighbouring Zaire.
About 100 paratroopers landed from Italy in...
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UN peacekeepers on streets of Kinshasa after factional fighting
1. Nelson Mandela Place on the "Boulevard du 30 juin" where fighting broke out between supporters of Jean Pierre Bemba and Joseph Kabila
2. Boulevard du 30 juin, a few metres from Bemba's residence
3. Mid of United Nations road block...
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SOUTH AFRICA: PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA MEETS REBEL LEADER KABILA
Cape Town, South Africa & Lubumbashi, Zaire, 16 April 1997
Cape Town, South Africa:
1. Exterior of South African President Nelson Mandela's office, Tuynhuis
2. Press waiting outside house
3. Mandela and Zairian rebel leader Laurent...
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UN chief comments on upcoming elections
1. Wide of new conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Saiky Khemaly, Head of Public Information for MONUC (UN forces in Congo):
"We are two days away from the first election ever been organised in Congo for more than 40 years. This...
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Zaire - Update on situation
Zaire's capital, Kinshasa, was brought to a standstill on Monday
(14/4) by strike action called by opponents of the country's
ailing President Mobutu Sese Seko.
The strike crippled public transport and most private vehicles
were also off...
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ZAMBIA/CONGO: CONGO PEACE DEAL LATEST
English/Nat
Defiant Congolese rebels insisted on Sunday they will battle on despite the signing by six nations of a long-awaited peace accord to end the fighting in Congo's civil war.
The agreement was signed on Saturday by Congo's...
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CONGO: KABILA'S GOVERNMENT THREATENS WAR AGAINST RWANDA
French/Nat
President Laurent Kabila's government has threatened war against neighbouring Rwanda after accusing it of masterminding the uprising in eastern Congo.
The rebellion has sparked a backlash of anger by some residents in...
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Start of election campaign ahead of first multi-party elections in 40 years
1. Police vehicle in front of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) rally
2. Wide of rally
3. Various of people chanting
4. SOUNDBITE: (French) Freddy Kunabeya, Union for Democracy and Social Progress supporter:
"We have...
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VOICER Food crisis as tens of thousands flee
00 00 Wide shot children playing outside camp
00 06 Women cooking outside make-shift houses
00 11 Eliud Jovan talking to children
00 16 SOUNDBITE: (English) Eliud Jovan, Displaced person
"You have seen almost the majority, anyway a...
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Zaire - Government supporters stage mass rally
Thousands of government supporters staged a mass indoor rally
in Kinshasa on Sunday (27/4) to demonstrate their support for
their country and President Mobutu Sese Seko.
Mobutu supporters arriving for rally in trucks,
supporters...
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GNS More French peacekeepers arrives, villages burnt
Katoto (village, 25 kilometres - 16 miles - north of Bunia)
1. Wide of burning house and Hema tribesmen walking past
2. Soldiers walking past houses (not burning)
3. Women and children walking past demolished house
4. Mid shot of...
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BELGIUM: CONGOLESE IMMIGRANTS REACT TO DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT MOBUTU
Eng/French/Nat
The death of former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko met mixed reactions in Matonge, a west African immigrant neighbourhood in Brussels.
Some said they hoped Mobutu would be buried on his home soil, near to his ancestors.
But...
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Rwandan Militia hiding out in Congo Mountains
Rwandan Militia hiding out in Congo Mountains
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ZAIRE: KISANGANI: UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME PLANE ARRIVES WITH AID
Eng/French/Nat
The first relief food arrived in Kisangani on Wednesday since troops of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire rebels took control of the city Saturday.
Rebel leader Laurent Kabila...
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Zaire - US envoy visit
Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko will on Friday (2/5) meet his rival Laurent Kabila for historic face-to-face talks on board a South African ship, US envoy Bill Richardson announced on Wednesday (30/4) after intense negotiations with...