/ 15 February 2001

IMPOSTORS PASS AS KABILA?S BROTHERS

TWO men pretending to be brothers of President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) misled Iraqi authorities by posing as envoys of the government, officials said. The official Iraqi news agency INA said the two men, who identified themselves as Salomon and Zigho Kabila, brothers of the newly sworn-in president, were in Baghdad allegedly to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two countries. They were received by Iraq’s deputy secretary of foreign affairs, Nizar Hamdoun. – AFP