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| Name | UN peacekeepers on streets of Kinshasa after factional fighting |
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| Video Discription | (23 Aug 2006) SHOTLIST ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ 1. Nelson Mandela Place on the "Boulevard du 30 juin" where fighting broke out between supporters of Jean Pierre Bemba and Joseph Kabila 2. Boulevard du 30 juin, a few metres from Bemba's residence 3. Mid of United Nations road block into town centre 4. SOUNDBITE (Kingwana) Maguy Malonda, Kinshasa resident : "We don't understand this country, we don't know where to go. Let the politicians have their way, that we are still here is down to the grace of god, praise be his name, as we don't know whether we will live or die, but thanks to the U.N. forces we have a bit of peace." 6. Mid two armed U.N. soldiers crouched behind wall 7. Mid of of Jean Pierre Bemba's soldiers 8. Mid of dead policeman 9. U.N. force see bodies of dead policemen 10. Close of dead policeman 11. Close up police patch, zoom out 12. Mid of U.N vehicles in streets STORYLINE: The United Nations demanded an immediate cease-fire on Tuesday from rival army supporters of Congo's two presidential candidates and three days of deadly fighting died down as the European Union sent reinforcements to the restive Central African nation. Fourteen people were reported dead from gun battles in the capital, Kinshasa, that broke out on Sunday as officials announced results from historic elections that showed President Joseph Kabila facing ex-rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba in a runoff vote. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged Kabila and Bemba to meet immediately to resolve the situation, and the U.N.'s top envoy, William Lacey Swing, is trying to broker peace talks, a U.N. spokesman said in New York. Congo's war-battered people denounced the fighting between the candidates' supporters in the postwar military, saying they wanted democracy rather than more armed struggle. Heavy gunfire rang out before dawn on Tuesday for a third day and fighting raged for hours until the United Nations, with 17,500 peacekeepers in Congo, demanded a halt to hostilities. Major fighting appeared to have diminished by late afternoon and the U.N.'s peacekeeping department reported that relative calm had been restored in the capital. Witnesses said Kabila's special presidential guards, who wear black uniforms and red berets, had withdrawn from outside Bemba's house, where the head of the U.N. mission, William Swing, and other diplomats were meeting with Bemba on Monday when fighting erupted outside the compound. EU and U.N. troops evacuated the foreign envoys. Aides said Kabila ordered his loyalists back to barracks and that Bemba, who is also a vice president in Kabila's national unity government, had done similarly. Bemba, who was in the protection of the United Nations, wasn't immediately available for comment. The U.N. said in a statement that all Congo army troops had been ordered back to their original positions and that the international troops would begin patrolling Kinshasa's street alongside Congo's police on Tuesday night. The cease-fire appeared to be holding as of Tuesday afternoon, officials said. 180 German and Irish troops arrived on Tuesday in Kinshasa from Gabon, joining a contingent of 50 French, Portuguese and Swedish troops who arrived overnight with attack and transport helicopters. About 1,000 EU troops are already in Congo, on hand to help the U.N. peace force overseeing the first elections in 45 years of coups d'etat, corrupt rule and war. Even with the possible end to fighting that saw Kabila's forces using tanks against Bemba's fighters, wearing olive-drab uniforms and red bandanas, deep-rooted enmities remain in Congo's armed forces. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/61675ec794ba151ffcb4c3b2b4c3b85f GUe9VBUt9M0 |
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| Tags | AP Archive | 494061 | 61675ec794ba151ffcb4c3b2b4c3b85f | DR Congo Security | Nelson Mandela | Joseph Kabila | Jean-Pierre Bemba | Kofi Annan | Kinshasa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Central Africa | Government and politics | General news |
