Zaire alleges Shaba raid
NZPA-Reuter. Kinshasa Zaire has accused unnamed African sisternations of complicity in what it says was the third invasion in seven years of
its mineral-rich Shaba Province. ;■ Naval and air units recaptured the small town of Moba, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, on Friday after it had been occupied for 24 hours by an undisclosed number of rebels, said the Information Minister, Mr Sakombi Inongo. The rebels had crossed from Tanzania. / Two cap-
tured rebels had made grave confessions of complicity by sister nations which he said was bound to have serious diplomatic consequences.
Mr Inongo did not name the countries allegedly part of the third > attempt by rebels to gain control of the southern copper-rich Shaba Province since 1977. Mr Inongo said that the attack had been aimed at creating chaos before a planned visit to Zaire by the French President, Mr Francois Mitterrand, next month
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