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Rwandan President Paul Kagame, adressing a full house at the Institue of Politics yesterday evening, faced repeated questions from the audience about the current Congo War as he tried to keep the talk focused on Rwanda's recent strides in its justice system and women's rights...
...DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Still Not Safe Aid agencies began distributing food in the stricken city of Goma after residents returned to the area despite threats of a second volcanic eruption. Molten lava from the Nyiragongo volcano claimed at least 100 lives, including 50 killed in an explosion at a petrol station, and destroyed more than 1,500 homes. The U.N. says half a million people will need ongoing humanitarian assistance or relocation...
...killing of Congo strongman Laurent Kabila was yet another chapter in a long history of chaos that began with the death 40 years ago of the newly independent country's first, and last, legitimately elected leader, PATRICE LUMUMBA...
...last time Patrice Lumumba was seen alive by anyone but his captors was Jan. 17. It was the low point in the career of a man who had dreamed of bossing a united Congo. . . He had failed, but as a Western diplomat put it, 'being the best demagogue around, he kept anybody else from running it either.' Taken from a military prison in Thysville, where in typical fashion he had almost fast-talked his guards into mutiny, Lumumba was flown to Elizabethville, hauled out and savagely beaten by Katangese soldiers, then driven off to jail, his hands bound behind...
...first shots rang out just after 1 p.m. Laurent-Desire Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was in heated discussion with advisers inside the presidential palace in the capital of Kinshasa. Details of what happened next remain sketchy. One version is that a bodyguard drew the President aside and then shot him twice. Another is that a minister shot the President after Kabila ordered his arrest. In any event, shooting continued for about 30 minutes. Soon after, presidential chief of staff Eddy Kapend went on state television to appeal for calm and announce the temporary closure...