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France, Libya 'Backing' Kabila
January 9, 1999
Kampala - France and Libya are supporting the embattled Congolese President, Mr.
Laurent Kabila, panelists on Worldnet Dialogue, a television network under the
United States Information Service, said Thursday.
Uganda's ambassador to the United States, Ms. Edith Sempala, one of the panelists, said Ugandan troops went deep into the Democratic Republic of Congo to secure the airports in Kisangani and Kindu towns suspected to be used as bases by the Sudanese government to bomb Uganda.
Herman Cohen, a former senior advisor at the Global Coalition for Africa and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Affairs, said the presence of Libyans and the French in Kinshasa had complicated the situation in Congo. He was supported by Shaka Ssali of the Voice of America.
They did not say when the Libyans and French were flown there nor their numbers. But Cohen said Zimbabwe had revealed that its troops in Congo were funded by the French.
The programme focused on the war in Congo, "Who should best rule Congo and who can help move the country toward peace."
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