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CAN 034 THE PRIME MINISTER OF CONGO CYRILLE ADOULA GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE
Congo Prime Minister, Cyrille Adoula, announces the plan to expel 100 Russian diplomats but says that diplomatic relations are not broken.
1. ms interior press conference, pan to cameramen
2. cu Adoula speaking
3. cu and pan press
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CONGO: SUPPORT PLANES LAND READY FOR EVACUATION OF UK NATIONALS
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Two support planes have landed in the Congo ahead of a party of 40 British marines who will be on standby to evacuate U-K nationals from Zaire if the situation deteriorates.
The British initiative was prompted by the...
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Zaire - 300 Die As Plane Engulfs Open-Air Market
300 die as plane engulfs open-air market
More than 300 people in a crowded African market were killed on
Monday (8/1) when a huge Russian cargo plane failed to gain
altitude on take-off from Zaire's Ndolo airport, near the...
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GABON: PRESIDENT MOBUTU VISIT FOR TALKS WITH REGIONAL LEADERS
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Zaire's President Mobutu is in Gabon for talks with regional leaders, following the recent failure of talks with rebels.
Further meetings were planned Thursday with the presidents of Gabon, Congo, Chad, Central African...
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CAN873 FIGHTING DURING CONGO CRISIS
File footage showing Congolese soldiers and mercenaries during the Congo Crisis. Soldiers are shown fighting and making arrests.
1. ws travelling shot road
2. cu mercenary in car
3. ws street scene
4. ws exterior shop
5. mcu smashed...
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Residents flee as rebels and military battle over eastern town
1. Various of civilians fleeing down main street of Sake as government forces and M23 rebel fighters battle for control of it
2. Various of M23 rebel fighters on road between Goma and Sake travelling to reinforce units fighting in Sake,...
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Zaire Demonstration broken up
The main opposition to Laurent Kabila's Democratic Republic of Congo government condemned the "brutality" of troops who broke up a banned demonstration in Kinshasa on Wednesday (28/05).
0.00 Demonstrators marching and chanting;
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ZIMBABWE: 3 AMERICANS CONVICTED OF GUN SMUGGLING (2)
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Three Americans have been convicted in Zimbabwe of possessing weapons of war and trying to smuggle guns on board a civilian airliner.
But the three are unlikely to serve more than two months in prison after the judge...
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DR Congo - UN says fighters loyal to failed presidential candidate clash with army
Kinshasa - 22 March 2007
1. Wide of former warlord and one-time presidential hopeful Jean-Pierre Bemba's house
2. Close of Bemba's security guards
3. Wide of government army in front of Bemba's house, zoom in
4. People hurrying away...
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GS 12 1 83 CHINESE PRIME MINISTER VISITS PRESIDENT MOBUTU
The Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang makes an official visit to Zaire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and meets its president Mobutu Sese Seko. cuts on z070827
1. ws Zhao down splane steps at Ndjili Airport Kinshasa, greeted by...
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CAN818 SITUATION FOLLOWING FIRST KISANGANI MUTINY
Kinshasa, formerly known as Leopoldville, hosts scenes as Belgium-Kinshasa relations near breakdown. The country enters further crisis after the first Kisangani Mutiny in Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) which although unsuccessful was...
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Morocco - Mobutu Sese Seko buried
Mobutu Sese Seko, the former dictator of Zaire who died last
weekend of prostate cancer, was buried in Morocco's capital on
Saturday (13/9) in a private ceremony attended only by members
of his family.
WS exterior cemetery
MS guards...
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Government soldiers on patrol in Kibati
1. Various of DRC government troops on patrol in Kibati, near Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Government Democratic Republic of Congo troops on Tuesday were on patrol in Kibati, near Goma, eastern DRC.
Earlier on Tuesday, the...
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CAN930 PRESIDENT MOBUTU OPENS OAU MEETING IN THE CONGO
Delegates from Botswana, Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Tunisia, Tanzania, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Morocco, Mauretania, Mali, Libya attend OAU meeting opened by Congolese President Joseph Mobutu.
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Zaire-Fighting between government and rebel troops
The Zairean capital Kinshasa was tense on Sunday (18/5) after
sporadic gunfire throughout the night amid reports of fighting
between government troops and rebels.
In the poorer quarters of the city there were signs of looting.
Kinshasa,...
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Preparations for funerals of massacre victims
1. Interior of tent with rows of bodies in body bags
2. Red Cross workers carrying body in body bag out of tent
3. Woman mourner screaming and moaning
4. Red Cross putting corpse in body bag into coffin
5. Man nailing a coffin closed...
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Congolese police fighting with angry Bemba supporters
1. Supporters of defeated presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba pulling metal strips off barrier
2. Young Bemba supporters throwing rocks at passing police truck
3. Man running away with riot shield and dropping it
4. Various of Bemba...
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CONGO: LAURENT KABILA UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE US
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Under pressure from the United States, Laurent Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, Laurent Kabila promised on Saturday that U-N officials could freely investigate allegations his forces...
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Storm dampens protests from disgruntled Bemba supporters
1. Wide of downtown street in rain with a Kabila poster in the background
2. Mid of woman carrying a box with a "$" money changing sign written on it
3. Zoom into man holding a newspaper with the headline reading "C'est Kabila," ("It's...
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Congo - Mobutu and Kabila meet on SAS Outeniqua
Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko agreed on Sunday (4/5) to
step down from power in face-to-face talks with rebel leader
Laurent Kabila on board a South African naval vessel.
Mobutu and Kabila, who met for 90 minutes on the SAS...
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SYND 21 8 67 REFUGEES FLEE MERCENARIES UNDER COLONEL SCHRAMME ADVANCE
Congolese civilians flee as war threatens. Our correspondent John Evans reports on an interview with a mercenary leader, Colonel Jean Schramme.
1. zoom into mercenary headquarters
2. ls and ws border bridge
3. high shot refugees
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SYND 5 7 73 FILE FILM PRESIDENT KAYIBANDA
President Gregoire Kayibanda of Rwanda being greeted by President Sese Soku Mobutu of the Congo at Kinhasha for an Organisation of African Unity summit meeting.
1. ms Mobutu walks across tarmac
2. ms Mobutu greets Kayibanda who stoops to...
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Democratic Republic of Congo - Curfew
The rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo reached the capital Kinshasa for the first time Wednesday, where the government imposed a curfew while it tackled "invaders" claiming to control parts of the city. As government troops...
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SYND 18-3-69 KIESINGER AND MOBUTU DISCUSS INTERNATIONAL SITUATION
President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger meet in Bonn to discuss the International political situation.
1. GV of the exterior of Kiesinger's office
2. VS of Mobutu and Kiesinger
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