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There were 165 volunteers on the team – scientists, soldiers, biologists ... was to navigate the Zaire River (formerly the Congo, and now the Congo again), the second longest river in Africa ...

seizing the towns and firing on native soldiers of the Congo. To many ... in which both Britain and Belgium had heavy investments, British U.N. Ambassador Sir Patrick Dean and Belgium’s Walter ...

Congolese troops put down a coup attempt by a small ... were battling coup forces at the military base. As shooting eased, British Ambassador Jim Atkinson told AP that Lengue, the alleged coup ...

A Ghanaian military band charmed the Congolese with sprightly tunes, and the bandleader said in clipped British accents ... Belgian troops withdrew only to the two big Congo military bases ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, witnesses said, as the British ... and Rwandan troops marched largely ...

Contingency plans have been drawn up to send British troops to the Congo to try to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe if the security situation continues to deteriorate. Up to 700 soldiers from ...

It was a vast, unwieldy expedition. Three giant inflatable rafts, two watercraft jets, six rubber dinghies, eight Land Rovers and six Range Rovers, 89 tons of gear, and one Beaver aircraft which ...