The Congo: Renouncing the Rebels

What ever happened to the Congolese rebels? When the "People's Republic of the Congo" collapsed before advancing government columns in March, its leaders disappeared in headlong flight across the Sudanese border—President Christophe Gbenye in the Rolls-Royce he had expropriated along the way. Most of them ended up in Cairo, where under the friendly eye of Nasser and with money scrounged from Communist embassies, they hoped to plot their triumphant return. It didn't quite work out that way, for soon they were spending most of their time plotting against each other.

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