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CUBA: HAVANA: GROUP 77 SUMMIT ENDS
French/Span/Nat
Leaders of the world's developing nations are uniting to demand a greater say in the global economic system.
The move came towards at the end of a three day summit in communist Cuba which has seen the group expand from a...
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ZAIRE: DEATH TOLL FROM CHOLERA RISING AMONG RWANDAN REFUGEES
French/Nat
The death toll from cholera is steadily rising among Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire, though the number of new cases now appears to be falling off.
The cholera outbreak is not expected to delay the evacuation of refugees...
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ZAIRE: KIKWIT: EBOLA VIRUS OUTBREAK: UPDATE
English/Nat
Doctors in the Zairean town of Kikwit are working round the clock to contain the outbreak of the rampant virus, Ebola.
Meanwhile, in the capital city Kinshasa, fears are growing that the disease is spreading.
The Red Cross...
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Rebels asks Uganda, southern Sudan and Congo forces to end 8-day offensive
1. Wide of news conference
2. Cut away of photographer
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr.David Nyekorack-Matsanga, chief negotiator for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA):
"The LRA / M (Lord's Resistance Army Movement) notes that military strikes...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: ARMY PUT ON SHOW 3 PRISONERS OF WAR
French/Nat
The Zairian army has put on show three prisoners it says were arrested during fighting in eastern Zaire.
The prisoners include a Rwandan and a Ugandan soldier, and a third man identified as a doctor for international aid...
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4:3 UN demonstrates surveillance drone it plans to use in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The United Nations launched the first of five drones which will be used to gather intelligence about the myriad armed groups still lurking in the Democratic Republic of Congo's vast jungles at a ceremony on Tuesday.
UN peacekeeping chief...
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WRAP UN aid convoy, Food distributed in IDP camp
A 12-vehicle United Nations aid convoy rumbled past rebel lines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, carrying medical supplies for clinics looted by retreating government troops.
It was the first humanitarian aid...
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Russia - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presser
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on Saturday (17/05) for a
peaceful transition to democracy in Zaire, adding that he hoped
a bloody conflict could be avoided in the capital, Kinshasa.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sits at head of...
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WRAP Two Rwandan Hutu leaders on trial for atrocities in DRC; lawyer
1. Mid interior of the court, where the trial of two Rwandans charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in Congo is taking place
2. Wide of court officials
3. Close up of court folders
4. Various of court
5. Defendant...
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FILE as Govt forces battle unknown assailants in capital
1. Dignitaries walking up steps to the People''s Palace
2. Soldiers standing at attention
3. Joseph Kabila walking up to coffin and laying wreath
4. Coffin being opened
5. Joseph Kabila and dignitaries standing and watching ceremony...
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Zaire - Protection Against Ebola Progress
Officials in the Zairean capital, Kinshasa, are tightening their
quarantine measures to shield the city from the effects of the
Ebola virus epidemic. The disease is centred around the town of
Kikwit, some 500 kilometres (310 miles)...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: US AMBASSADOR BILL RICHARDSON ARRIVES
English/Nat
The U-S ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, arrived Monday in Zaire for talks with both sides in the civil war.
Richardson said he would meet with President Mobutu Sese Seko on Tuesday.
He intends to travel...
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CONGO: CONGOLESE REBELS REPORTEDLY CLOSING IN ON KINSHASA
French/Nat
A Congolese rebel commander said Tuesday his 60-thousand troops were closing in on Kinshasa in a nationwide rebellion to topple embattled President Laurent Kabila.
The week-long uprising in the eastern Kivu province of the...
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CONGO: UN CONCERNED AT LACK PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE
French/Nat
The United Nations Security Council is expressing "grave concern" at the lack of progress toward peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed General Abdulsalami Abubakar of...
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FRANCE: FRENCH & BELGIAN EVACUEES ARRIVE FROM THE CONGO
Eng/French/Nat
A special Belgian military flight from Libreville in Africa landed in Paris on Sunday night with 171 passengers on board, evacuated from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Most of the plane's occupants had left Kinshasa by...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: STREETS DESERTED AS PEOPLE OBSERVE STRIKE CALL
French/Nat
Small clashes have broken out between soldiers and demonstrators observing an anti- government strike in the Zairean capital, Kinshasa.
Generally, however, the streets of the city were almost deserted as residents backed ...
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BELGIUM: CONGO: NZANGA MOBUTU SPEECH
Eng/French/Nat
The son of Congo's late dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, has expressed regret for the assassination of the man who overthrew his father.
But speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, Nzanga Mobutu said the death of President Laurent...
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ZAIRE: EBOLA VIRUS UPDATE
English/Nat
Officials shut down health clinics, and schools in Kikwit, Friday, in a desperate bid to keep the deadly Ebola virus from spreading beyond Central Zaire.
In addition to cases in Kikwit, there have been outbreaks in the...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE SEKO ARRIVES HOME
French/Nat
Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko flew back into Zaire on Tuesday.
Mobutu, who has spent the last four months in Europe undergoing cancer surgery, has come back to a civil war that has uprooted tens of thousands in the east...
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CONGO: REBELS CLAIM THEY SHOT DOWN 2 ZIMBABWEAN JET FIGHTERS
Eng/French/Nat
Congolese rebels fighting to oust President Laurent Kabila say they have shot down two Zimbabwean jet fighters southwest of Kinshasa as a warning.
Zimbabwe deployed nine-hundred troops on Friday to support Kabila's...
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DR Congo - At least 230 dead in oil tanker blast
At least 230 dead in oil tanker blast
Sange - 4 July 2010
1. Wide of scene of blast
2. Local boys next to burnt tanker
Sange - 3 July 2010
3. Mid shot, soldier and onlookers standing next to burned out tanker
4. Rear shot of burned out...
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RR7821A ZAIRE THE KOLWEZI MASSACRE
The orgy of death and destruction in Zaire when
rebels went on the rampage, shocked and stunned
the world. A series of attacks by the rebels at Shaba
Province near Zaire's border with northern Zambia
claimed the lives of at least twelve...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Rumba king Papa Wemba: Mourners remember a brother a father
CLEAN : Rumba king Papa Wemba: Mourners remember a brother a father
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Congo opposition's strike call has mixed response
CLEAN : Congo opposition's strike call has mixed response