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/ 28 October 2002
Kenya’s fractured opposition united this week behind a single candidate for December’s presidential elections to try to prise President Daniel arap Moi’s party from power. Mwai Kibaki, a close runner-up in the past two polls, is backed by the new National Rainbow Coalition.
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/ 28 September 2002
Iraqi agents have been negotiating with criminal gangs in the Democratic Republic of Congo to trade Iraqi military weapons and training for high-grade minerals, possibly including uranium, according to evidence obtained by The Guardian in London.
Through the reinforced glass of his window, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s President, Joseph Kabila, watches the final touches being put to his murdered father’s mausoleum. No wonder he seems tense. ”Being a president,” Kabila says softly, ”you know, it’s a dangerous job.”
More than 100 people are reported to have been massacred in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an apparent bid to shore up Rwanda’s unpopular occupation of the country’s eastern provinces.
It was while she was on her way to collect the body of her sister-in-law last year that Christine was raped. She resisted, so her attacker — a member of the main rebel group, she believes — shot her twice in the vagina.