English/Nat

As rumours of a rebel attack on Zaire's capital increased members of the presidential guard have been deployed onto the streets of Kins
hasa.
As the government curfew takes effect, shops...

The organisation of African Unity and the United Nations pledged on Monday (02/06) to help raise donar funds for the new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 53 nation organisation is determined to help rebuild...

1. Aristide walking in with his wife Mildred

2. Aristide and woman in press conference
room
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Bertrand Aristide, exiled Haitia
n leader:
"I call for peaceful resistance, and I insist...

1. Exterior front of airport terminal, released Europeans (women in white shirts and red waistcoats are members of Spanish air crew who were detained), French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Chadian officials and...

Eng/French/Nat

The United Nations' new special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa has a difficult road ahead of
him.
On Tuesday (5 November) Canada's Ambassador to the United States,...

Mount Nyamulagira, Virunga National Park - 3 January 2010

1. Mid shot of volcano, with red glow from lava vis
ible
Goma - 4 Ja
nuary 2010
2. SOUNDBITE: (Kiswahili) Celestin Keasereka Mahinda,...

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Burundi to pray for peace on

Thursday (6/4), a year after both Burundi's and Rwa
nda's
presidents were assassinated, en event which unleashe
d genocide
across neighbouring...

1. Wide of Jean-Pierre Bemba, presidential candidate sitting

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jean-Pierre Bemba, presidential candi
date:
"What was important after the demonstration that unfortunately all this violence...

Natural Sound

Rebel forces in Zaire say they have captured another town in the east of the country - with thousands of refugees trying to escape across the Zaire R
iver.
The...

Europeans flee capital wracked by violence

Two hundred Europeans were evacuated from the Burundi capital Bujumbura on Tuesday (28/3) leaving a city wracked by ethnic violence. The Air France Boeing 747, sent by the French...

1. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaving Meridien Hotel, venue of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit

2. Police outside h
otel
3. Various leaders making way to pose...

Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko departed from the capital

Kinshasa on Wednesday (07/05) to fly to the Gabonese ca
pital
Gabon. He was accompanied by his wife and his cabinet
director,
Vund
uawe te...

1. Mid of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, zoom in to al-Bashir

2. Zoom in of Kou
chner
3. Kouchner with Sudanese Foreign Ministe
r Lam Akol
4....

Journalists in Zaire were warned on Monday (14/4) that the state of emergency will be strictly enforced. At a news conference Minister of Information, Kinkiey Mulumba, said some citizens and journalists had not been observing the...

The 22nd US marine expeditionary unit staged a mock evacuation

in Brazzaville on Tuesday (6/5) in preparation for the
real
thing
in Zaire.
Unlike previous evacuation exercises, some of the
marines...

Eng/French/Nat

The United Nations' top official for refugees ended a four-day visit to Central Africa on Su
nday.
Sadako Ogata, visited Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo...

FILE: Ri-Kwamgba, Sudan - 12 November, 2006

1. Lord''s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Joseph Kony, emerging from the bush with his soldiers to meet the then UN undersecretary for humanitarian...

Natural Sound

Rwandan refugees continue to trickle home as aid organisations struggle to speed up their repatriation by road and
air.
Hundreds of refugees - most of them...

Five United States Air Force transport planes arrive in Zaire, the first stage of an airlift of Moroccan troops to defend Zaire against possible future rebel attack. The Moroccan troops, which will total about 1500, will form the...

Natural Sound

Brazzaville's mayor and mediator, Bernard Kolelas, says the fighting factions in the Republic of Congo agreed to extend a 72 hour truce for a further seven
days.
The ceasefire was...

French/Nat

The first French soldiers have begun to withdraw from the Congolese capital, Brazzaville, on Mo
nday.
About 100 French troops left the Congo for the neighbouring...

Former Burundi president Pierre Buyoya seized power in a military coup Thursday (25/7), ousting Hutu incumbent Sylvestre Ntibantunganya and shattering a fragile power-sharing accord between the country's rival...

One thousand Belgian paratroopers boarded 6130 hercules transport planes at a military airport near Brussells on Thursday (18.5.78) Their mission; to rescue an estimated 3000 foreigners, mostly white, trapped in the Zaire town of...

African heads of state in Nairobi on Wednesday (18/3) were holding informal talks on the turmoil in Zaire after the disputed sacking of Zairean Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo, who is in Nairobi to represent ailing President...