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Article: Joseph Kabila Endorsed in Congo
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- January 24, 2001
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TIM SULLIVAN
AP Online
01-24-2001
Joseph Kabila Endorsed in Congo
Associated Press Writer
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Lacking a blueprint for a handover of power, lawmakers were hastily convened Wednesday to endorse the ascension of Joseph Kabila as troubled Congo's new leader after the assassination of his father.
The special session of the slain Laurent Kabila's hand-picked parliament -- held in the same hall where his body had lain in state before its burial Tuesday -- appeared little more than a rubber stamp measure before his young son was officially sworn in later in the week.
After observing a minute of silence for the elder Kabila, the 225 lawmakers present at the open-air People's ...
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