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...GABON Ebola Is Back Authorities cordoned off a remote region along the border between Gabon and the Republic of Congo after confirming an outbreak of Ebola disease. Fifteen people have died so far from the hemorrhagic fever, for which there is no known cure. The virus is believed to have spread from Gabon to the Congo after an infected woman fled to a village across the border with her baby. Both mother and child later died...
...military court near Cairo. Several of the mainly Egyptian defendants protested their innocence from a cage in the courtroom. Most of them were arrested in May on charges of collecting donations for the Palestinian uprising and for Chechnya, but more serious charges were added later. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Money Talks An E.U. delegation persuaded President Joseph Kabila to resume negotiations with rebel groups and neighboring countries after promising to help sponsor the process. Talks broke down in October when the government walked out, but lack of funds was also a factor. As the E.U. delegation visited key Congo allies...
Since 1998, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been fighting a civil war with rebels who are supported by the surrounding countries of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi...
...call on the parties involved in the conflict to respect the true wishes of the people of the Congo,” Kabila said. He charged the three nations with violating the United Nations charter for their invasion of the northern and eastern portions of the Congo...
...rebellion led by Kabila’s father, Laurent Kabila, forced Sese-Seko out of office. He died later that year in exile. By the time he died, Sese-Seko was one of the wealthiest men in the world, though the Congo remained one of the poorest of countries, according to per capita income...