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Kabila cracks down on ministerial squabbling

    NAIROBI
    A government circular issued by President Kabila has instructed his ministers to clear their public statements with his office before issuing them and to refrain from criticising each other in public. The circular, signed by Kabila's assistant cabinet director, Godefroid Tchamlesso, and published in Kinshasa newspapers on Wednesday, was linked by Kinshasa daily 'Le Potentiel' to public disputes and humiliations between cabinet members - notably between Interior Minister Gaetan Kakudji and Petroleum Minister Pierre-Victor Mpoyo over the causes of a fuel crisis in the capital, Reuters news agency reported on Thursday. The circular said Kabila's directive was intended to prevent "manipulation" by newspapers to the detriment of the government and that failure to adhere to it would be "severely sanctioned".

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