Kabila's Son Sworn In, Backs Peace Plan

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 27, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

-- Ten days after Congolese President Laurent Kabila was fatally shot by one of his bodyguards, his son was sworn in as president of the vast central African nation that has drawn six neighboring countries into its 29-month-old civil war.

Addressing the nation for the first time hours after his inauguration in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, Joseph Kabila, 31, said he would try to revive the peace accord that all warring parties in Congo's stalemated war agreed to nearly 18 months ago in Lusaka, Zambia. Despite being signed by Laurent Kabila, his military allies in Zimbabwe, Angola and ...

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