He formed a band, Victoria Kin, named after Victoria Brazza, a rival in the French Congo (today's Republic of Congo-Brazzaville).
Would the coverage the situation in Congo receives be the same if it was happening in Europe or if Congo spoke English rather than French?
Laurent Nkunda, who leads troops of the National Congress for the Defense of the People, told CNN in a phone interview he wants to start working Friday with the U.N. mission in Congo, known by its French acronym MONUC, to allow people back to their homes.
Lacking a clear position in advance, Chancellor Angela Merkel found it hard to say no to French demands that Germany take the lead in Congo.
Congo Brazzaville was named after the Congo River and the 19th century French explorer, Pierre Brazza, the first European to reach this part of the great African waterway.
On February 12, 2006, the London Sunday Times reported that Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the President of Congo-Brazzaville, another former French colony in central Africa, had spent more than three hundred thousand dollars on hotel rooms during a visit to New York for a U.N.
"We are looking into the most effective and fastest way of helping MONUC, " he said, using the French acronym for the U.N. mission in Congo.
As the troops pull out, fears have been expressed by the French and Rwandan governments of a power vacuum and factional fighting in eastern Congo.
In 1998 he launched AfriStar from French Guiana into stationary orbit 22, 300 miles over the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In 1998 he launched AfriStar from French Guiana into stationary orbit 36, 000 kilometers over the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
French soldiers started to arrive in Bunia , the capital of a region in north-eastern Congo that has been torn by savage tribal fighting.
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