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KINSHASA -- Laurent Kabila received a hero's welcome in Kinshasa on Tuesday night, sweeping into the capital city by motorcade three days after his troops captured the city. Will the country will live up to its new name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo? New finance minister Mwana Nanga Mawampanga says that Kabila wants to hold multi-party elections within a year, a commitment supported by the United States and other Western nations. While Mawampanga issued a call for unity, he added that individuals who had been associated with overthrown President Mobutu are welcome...
KINSHASA, Zaire: The government of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo is moving quickly to consolidate power two days after Laurent Kabila's ragtag rebel soldiers marched victoriously into the capital, reports TIME's Peter Graff from Kinshasa. "Kabila's representatives met Monday with the chairmen of the major state-run enterprises and the heads of the national bank," says Graff, "and they did it very publicly." The moves have helped to stabilize the national currency, which soared from 170,000 zaire to the dollar on Friday to 50,000 to the dollar Monday. Kabila, who has assumed...
...that the government's ragged army will not be able to hold off Kabila's forces, now reportedly less than 25 miles from Kinshasa, scores of senior military officers and politicians have also left the country. General Nzimbi Ngbale, head of Mobutu's elite presidential guard, fled across the Congo River to Brazzaville, Congo soon after the dictator, largely unnoticed, slipped out of Kinshasa. Although the government says it will continue to defend the capital, the departures suggest that Kinshasa may fall to Kabilwith very little struggle. Diplomats hope that Mobutu's exit will pave the way for a bloodless...
...near, shops and stalls at the central market closed early, while police roamed the downtown area, stopping people to demand bribes. Opposition parties, hoping to convince Mobutu to resign, have called for a general strike Wednesday to coincide with the president's planned talks with Kabila in Pointe-Noire, Congo...
...also exerting profound influence across the breadth of sub-Saharan Africa. Old friends, proteges and disciples have either gained power or, as in Kabila's case, are in the process of winning it, from the Great Lakes region north to Sudan and west to the mouth of the Congo...