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1. Zaire

Liane speaks with NPR's Michael Skoler in Kinshasha, Zaire. The country's third largest city, Kisangani, was captured yesterday by Zairean rebels with hardly a fight from Zaire's army. The loss of Kisangani, a strategically significant city, is a stunning defeat to Zaire's crumbling government.

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