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A coup attempt in the Congo capital of Kinshasa and a week of clashes over an eastern border city made clear the precariousness of the country's peace, raising fears among its desperate people that they could be plunged back into Africa's deadliest war.
The Congolese already saw 3.3 million countrymen die in the 1998-2002 war, which drew in armies from five neighboring nations. Last week, tens of thousands took to the streets nationwide to vent their anger over the threat of new conflict.
"What will happen next? We are on our way to chaos," an opposition politician, Valentin Mubake Nombi, lamented in Kinshasa, which saw the bloodiest of the rioting that erupted with the June 2 fall of Bukavu in eastern Congo to renegade former rebels.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/06/14/2003175029The 'calculated' Bush commitment to Africa.
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