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Article: CONGO LEADER'S ALLIES CLAIM KEY REBEL STRONGHOLD.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 24, 1998
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President Laurent Kabila's quest for regional military support paid off yesterday when his Angolan allies captured a key rebel stronghold in western Congo.
The rebels acknowledged losing the town of Kitona, but said they were continuing their advance on Kinshasa, the capital, and had captured the important eastern city of Kisangani.
The Angolan victory was a much-needed boost for Kabila, but it also threatened to transform Congo into a proxy battlefield for a regionwide war of shifting alliances.
With air support and rumbling tanks, Angolan forces drove into Kitona, near the Atlantic coast, effectively cutting off the advancing rebel army from ...