Word: gizenga
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...eastern Congo, which bore the brunt of the fighting during the long-running war, and where most people are desperate for peace. Support for Bemba is strongest in the center and far west of the country. The area around Kinshasa went to a third candidate, veteran politician Antoine Gizenga. Many in the west, including residents of Kinshasa, resent Kabila's rise to power and see him as an interloper who grew up in Tanzania and struggles in Lingala, the most common language across Congo...
Under Amnesty. Mulele, 39, once Education Minister for the late Patrice Lumumba and later an ambassador for the secessionist Stanleyville regime of Left-Winger Antoine Gizenga, had returned to Kinshasa in late September after nearly four years in hiding and in exile. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko announced that Mulele had rallied to the Mobutu government and thus came under an amnesty proclaimed last August. He personally escorted the former rebel across the Congo River from the neighboring Congo Brazzaville, while Mobutu was on a private visit to Morocco. On his arrival, Mulele was feted over champagne and caviar. But Mobutu...
...office, he began trying to consolidate support. He won a promise of unconditional support from Andre Lubaya ,an important member of the National Liberation Committee, a group of leftist exiles which has partially guided and supported the revolutionary forces. Tshombe got Adoula to promise the prompt release of Antoine Gizenga, Lumumba's former lieutenant...
Jittery Boss. Encouraged, Tshombe flew back home, where the rebels of Stanleyville, as if to prove his thesis, had declared a new "Congolese People's Republic." Its President would be Christophe Gbenye, 37, a jittery, opportunistic onetime Congolese police boss who once labored for Leftist Antoine Gizenga, then arrested Gizenga on behalf of Moderate Premier Cyrille...
...last week, Tshombe's country was in flames, his army in disgrace, and leftist ex-Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga had formed a rebel-lining political party right under his nose. So Tshombe felt ready to bring the mercenaries into the open and to start recruiting more. Not that mercenaries alone could solve the Congo's long-range problems but they might conceivably clear and hold the rebel areas, thereby giving Tshombe time to put some order into the nation's chaotic and corrupt administration...