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Kabila working on "action programme"

[Liberia] Soccer star George Weah arrives to cast his ballot in the second run off poll to choose Liberia's new president. [Date picture taken: 11/08/2005] Claire Soares/IRIN
Soccer millionaire George Weah arriving to cast his ballot
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    DRC Information Minister Didier Mumengi has said the two-year transition period envisaged by President Laurent-Desire Kabila after he came to power in May 1997 was not a deadline as such. "The two years of transition that the president of the republic imposed on himself rather constitutes a programme of action," he said over state television on Thursday. This programme included a series of rehabilitation projects "with the restoration of the republic as a priority". He said the proposed national debate marked a major phase in the "democratic running of our nation".

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