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Mbaya arrested

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    Kabila’s former reconstruction and planning minister, Etienne Mbaya, was arrested at his home in Kinshasa on 2 June and was being held at the Kokolo military camp, news agencies said on Tuesday. Mbaya served as minister until May 1998, when he was dismissed along with several others for alleged corruption.

    Meanwhile, the Centre des Droits de l’Homme et du Droit Humanitaire said in a statement received by IRIN that security forces in Lubumbashi had on Tuesday arrested Godefroid Kyangwe Muleya, editor of the local newspaper ‘Mukuba’.

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