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CONGO: KABILA: FUNERAL LATEST
Natural Sound
One week after President Laurent Kabila was gunned down by a bodyguard, the Congo's capital city bid farewell to him on Tuesday.
The funeral began with a service at the People's Palace, the government hall where Kabila had...
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ZAIRE: US AMBASSADOR TO UN BILL RICHARDSON MEETS PRESIDENT MOBUTU
Eng/French/Nat
Face-to-face peace talks between Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila appeared more likely on Tuesday.
The U-S Ambassador to the U-N has met Mobutu in Kinshasa and urged the two sides to...
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DR Congo/Congo-UN mission to resume investigations
A UN mission probing alleged killings of Rwandan Hutu refugees
in the former Zaire is expected to resume nearly six weeks after
team members were recalled to New York because local authorities
wouldn't let them conduct an unrestricted...
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FRANCE: FRANCO - AFRICAN SUMMIT OPENS
French/Nat
President Jacques Chirac officially opened the 20th Franco-African summit on Friday with a call for African nations to take responsibility for their own peacekeeping.
His comments suggested an abrupt departure from...
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UN Under-Secretary Jan Egeland begins tour of Congo
Pweto territory East of the Katanga province - 6 September 2006
1. UN soldier guarding entrance of Kankonona camp for displaced people (main host area for Jan Egeland, the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian...
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CONGO: REOPENING OF VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK
English/Nat
The famous gorillas in the Virunga National Park on the Congo-Rwandese border are back on the tourist map.
The Virunga park had been closed over the last 6 months because of ethnic conflicts in the area, making it too...
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Opposition supporters rally against Kabila election win
1. Wide of demonstrators at start of march with banners
2. Close of demonstrators
3. Wide of police in riot gear escorting demonstrators down street
4. Close of demonstrators
5. Wide of demonstrators marching
6. Wide of demonstrators...
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WRAP Arrivals for Zimbabwe talks, NGO comment
Dar es Salaam
1. Exterior, hotel with sign :"The Kilimanjaro"
2. Close up, hotel sign
3. Red carpet, empty with officials waiting
4. Police, waiting
5. Camera crews
6. Officials, diplomats, arrive
7. Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe,...
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Volcano continues to erupt
1. Wideshot Volcano Research Centre in Goma
2. Cutaway of sign reading 'Volcanic Observatory - Goma'
3. Interior of centre with group of experts
4. Cutaway of seismic graph
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Dario Tedesco, Vulcanologist,...
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ZAIRE: EBOLA VIRUS OUTBREAK: US MEDICAL EXPERTS ARRIVE AT KIKWIT
English/Nat
Medical experts from the United States have arrived in the Zairean city of Kikwit, to begin work on containing the virulent disease Ebola.
The medical team were accompanied by a group of journalists who had been given ...
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French president says nations must strive for "democracy" at Francophonie Summit
1. Mid of Orchestra of the Democratic Republic of Congo's National School of Art playing classical music
2. Wide top shot of French President Francois Hollande arriving at the summit
3. Back shot of audience applauding
4. Mid of...
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CONGO: KINSHASA: PROTEST RALLY TURNS VIOLENT
French/Nat
A protest rally in Kinshasa turned violent on Friday with demonstrators setting fire to cars in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Their anger was sparked by the overnight detention of Congo's main...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: SITUATION UPDATE
French/Nat
Rusting, junked carnival rides are the only clues that people once danced, laughed and loved at the annual Kinshasa International Fair.
Throughout Zaire's capital and its outlying neighbourhoods, the best evidence of just ...
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ZAIRE: PARLIAMENT MEET TO DECIDE WHO SHOULD BE NEXT PRIME MINISTER
French/Nat
Opposition members of parliament in Zaire have met Tuesday to talk over who should be the next Prime Minister following the resignation of Leon Kengo wa Dondo - who was hand picked by President Mobutu.
Rebels now control...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: UN SECRETARY KOFI ANNAN SPEAKS OF CRISIS IN ZAIRE
English/Nat
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged Zaire's rebel leader to stop his advance on the capital Kinshasa and avoid a bloodbath.
Speaking in Moscow, Annan also said talks with the Russian President were fruitful,...
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CONGO: REBEL FORCES CAPTURE TOWN OF KINDU
Eng/French/Nat
Rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo routed government troops and captured the town of Kindu on Monday night.
The fierce fighting, including heavy shelling by both sides, forced thousands of civilians to...
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UK and French FMs with Kabila, comment on crisis, meet IDPs
Kinshasa
1. Various shots of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband meeting DRC President Joseph Kabila
2. Kouchner and Miliband and officials walking down steps
3. SOUNDBITE (French)...
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DR Congo - Tension mounts amidst acts of brutality
Journalists taken to Kinshasa airport late Thursday reported fighting in the Masina district in the east of Kinshasa, between the airport and the city centre. They said the area was totally surrounded by government forces. Witnesses...
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IDP's in camps to escape clashes between soldiers and rebels
Soldiers backed by United Nations helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles continued to battle with rebels on Saturday around a strategic army garrison near a mountain gorilla reserve in the east of the Democratic Republic of...
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CONGO: TROOPS ON STAND BY FOR POSSIBLE CIVILIAN EVACUATION FROM ZAIRE
English/Nat
The head of the United States Marines' mission in Congo, Marine Colonel Emerson Gardner said Wednesday that his force would move to an American warship, so as not to offend Zaireans.
Belgian and American troops are on...
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Zaire/Congo - Update on situation
As African heads of state met in Lome, Togo, on Wednesday (26/3), residents of Zaire's capital, Kinshasa, said they had little hope the meeting would bring an end to the crisis in their country.
Opposition to President Mobutu was evident...
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Zaire - Rebels address press conference
Zaire's rebel leaders on Sunday (11/5) urged all foreigners to leave the capital Kinshasa, saying Rwandans and Angolans fighting for President Mobutu Sese Seko were planning to kill them to trigger western intervention.
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BELGIUM: TROOPS BEING DEPLOYED TO THE CONGO CAPITAL BRAZZAVILLE
English/Nat
Hundreds of Belgian troops are currently being deployed to Brazzaville, the capital of Congo.
The 550 men are part of a military task force to assist in the possible evacuation of foreign nationals from war-torn...
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AFRICA: COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN CONGO WARS AGREE ON CEASEFIRE
French/Nat
The countries involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed on to a ceasefire to help end the fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila.
French President...