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Chiluba arrives in Kinshasa

[DRC] Bangladeshi soldiers raise the UN and Bangladesh flags in Bunia town on 31 August after the French-led EU force handed over its last checkpoint to MONUC. IRIN
Les soldats bangladais à la montée des drapeaux ONU et Bangladais le 31 août après passation de charge avec les troupes françaises de l'UE au poste de contrôle de la MONUC
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    Zambian President Frederick Chiluba arrived in Kinshasa today (Tuesday) in a fresh bid to end the DRC conflict, Reuters reported. Chiluba and DRC President Laurent-Desire Kabila are to discuss peace talks to be held in Zambia in the coming days, government officials in Lusaka said. The talks, to involve foreign and defence ministers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and those from Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Libya and Uganda, are part of Chiluba’s plan to secure a ceasefire. The Kinshasa administration has made much of the visit, which follows talks between Kabila and Chiluba in the southern Congolese city of Lubumbashi at the weekend, Reuters added.

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