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Situation “very worrying”, Josselin says

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    French Minister for Cooperation Charles Josselin described the situation in Congo-Brazzaville as “very worrying,” AFP reported yesterday. Josselin told the French National Assembly that much of the country, including Dolisie and the hinterland between Pointe-Noire and the capital, Brazzaville, was “practically outside the central government’s control.”

    He said fresh fighting in mid-December and at the end of January had seriously damaged infrastructure in the capital, which had “barely rebuilt over the ruins caused by the [1997] civil war” between President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and former president Pascal Lissouba, AFP reported. Pointe-Noire had escaped the violence due largely to the presence of Angolan troops, AFP quoted him as saying.

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