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...million people. Nor can the Rwandan army claim it was acting purely on a moral imperative. The Congo wars rapidly became a smash-and-grab for gold, diamonds and other minerals: at one point, Rwandan troops traded gunfire with Ugandans for control of the key central town of Kisangani...
...point plan that would put the rebel leader at the head of a coalition of opposition groups and guarantee elections within a year. What Mandela and the U.N. and U.S. negotiators had in mind was for Kabila to accept power from parliament speaker Laurent Monsengwo, Archbishop of Kisangani, who was installed in office for that purpose...
...removal of Libya from the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism. Libya has consistently denied involvement in the bombing, even after Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former member of the Libyan security organization, was found guilty in 2001. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Killing Fields Aid workers in Kisangani reported that Rwandan-backed rebels in eastern Congo have carried out mass executions in revenge for an uprising two weeks before. The bodies of at least 170 people have been found in mass graves. The rebels accused of the killings, the Congolese Rally for Democracy, deny the allegations, saying that only...
Museveni says he still dreams of building a road from Uganda to Kisangani, fathering a Uganda-Congo economic and military alliance that would be among the strongest forces in Africa--an idea that is a nightmare for other African states...
...stole all the supplies they could find. They were backed up by rebels who reportedly fired into the throngs with automatic rifles. Last week, to refute the charges of atrocities, Kabila's soldiers began delivering a few thousand refugees, many sick and mangled, from the jungle camps to Kisangani, where they could be airlifted home...