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SG/SM/6204 AFR/2 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: While I am pleased that the parties to the conflict in Zaire have accepted the five-point peace plan endorsed by the Security Council, I…

DATE=4/13/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-212833 TITLE=ZAIRE / DEMO SCENESETTER (L-ONLY) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ZAIREAN OPPOSITION GROUPS HAVE CALLED A STAY-AT-HOME, GENERAL STRIKE TODAY (MONDAY) TO PROTEST PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE SEKO'S NEW MILITARY-LED GOVERNMENT AND THE OUSTER OF FORMER PRIME MINISTER ETIENNE TSHISEKEDI. FROM THE…

Yasin Kachechele PANA Correspondent CHILILABOMBWE, Zambia (PANA) - Rebels of Laurent Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (Zaire) (ADFLC) on Saturday killed seven people, including armed imposters who had looted property at Kasumbalesa, the border post…

Congolese President Lissouba met with Kinshasa's President Mobutu, in part at the request of the Customs and Economic Union of central African countries. No details of the visit are yet available, although observers believe the purpose was to encourage…

KINSHASA, Zaire (PANA) - Zaire's new prime minister, Gen. Likulia Bolongo, Friday announced a 28-member cabinet in which he retained Kamanda wa Kamanda as foreign minister and named the former army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Mahele Bokungu, minister of…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no 148 d'informations sur la region des Grands Lacs (du vendredi 11 avril 97). * La pression continue d'augmenter sur le…

LUBUMBASHI, Zaire (Reuter) - Rebels are ratcheting up the pressure on Zaire's ailing and embattled president, Mobutu Sese Seko, as calls for the veteran strongman to quit proliferate. With many of Mobutu's one-time allies urging him to stand aside, South…

(extract) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan B) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania C) Uganda D) Sudan. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by…

*97041101.AAF (Burns 4/11 State Department briefing) (560) By Charles W. Corey USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- "A transition away from dictatorship towards stability and democracy," coupled with a "permanent cease-fire," is what is urgently needed in Zaire, U.S. State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns stressed…

97041105.AAF (Cohen, Booker, Rosenblum 4/9 interview) (2820) (Permission obtained covering republication/translation of the text by USIS/press outside the U.S. On title page carry: From The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, April 9, 1997, co-produced by MACNEIL/LEHRER PRODUCTIONS and WETA in association with WNET.…