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DRCongo's state-owned RTNC Television at 1205 gmt carried a report announcing Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga's resignation.

The presidential party, PPRD, which is the largest group evidently voted yes.

[Presenter] In the DRCongo, Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga yesterday presented his government's programme to the National Assembly. It puts emphasis on the fight against corruption, strengthening the justice system and improving security. Blanine Philippeau [phonetic] reports. To finance his ambitious programme, Antoine Gizenga has insisted on the fight against corruption in order to stop tax evasion, but that will not be sufficient to fill state coffers which a desperately empty. The prime minister will finance half of his budget from international donors. He will have to renew relations with them. In May 2006, the IMF suspended aid to DRCongo because of poor governance.

[Karel De Gucht] was also pleased to notice that some well-known hawks from President Kabila's entourage have not made it into the new government. \"[Antoine Gizenga] successfully shunned a few hardliners,\" the minister said. In his opinion, the team includes some \"positive and talented people.\"

[Mayobo] No, no, no. We do not think that the size is a paralyzing factor, but rather one that brings strength. All this speaks of a coalition. We do not think that there is a theory that indicates the size at which a coalition becomes inoperative. We think that 16 organizations which gave 40 ministers to the cabinet supported by 20 ministers is not an exaggerated figure. There are countries in Europe which have over 60 ministers for a smaller population than ours. [Mayobo] No, you should not lay out the issues in that manner. The coalition came and it is the grouping together of deputies so the AMP which had the largest number of deputies would have a significant number of members in government. We find that very logical and we do not see how a contradiction would eventually be unearthed with the presence of the PALU (?coalition). It is not a coalition which aims at putting one before the other. It is a coalition of the union of the strong with sharing of responsibilities in a common programme which values agreement. [Boisbouvier] But frankly, Godefroid Mayobo, what will the four ministers from your party, PALU, be able to do in the face of 15 ministers from the president's party, PPRD [People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy], including key ministers like that of the interior and defence?

DR CONGO: UN Secretary -General Ban Ki -Moon visits for talks with President Joseph Kabila, Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga; travels on to Addis Ababa for African Union summit (Congolese newspaper Le Potential) BELGIUM: Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz visits (-30) for series of meetings with Belgian, EU and NATO officials (Pakistani news agency APP) DR CONGO: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon visits for talks with President Joseph Kabila, Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga; travels on to Addis Ababa for African Union summit (Congolese newspaper Le Potential)

Antoine Gizenga announced that his party, PALU, Unified Lumumbist Party, will back the incumbent head of state. PALU will give its supporters instructions on how to vote. We repeat that the backing is crucial. Antoine Gizenga came third in the first round of presidential elections with 13 per cent of the vote.

This chapter examines the contours of how African nations and liberation movements encountered and manipulated Cold War interests on the African continent from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. It focuses on three main case studies: the first Congo Crisis during and after the decolonization of the Congo from 1960 to 1965; the competition between the Soviet Union, the United States, and China for influence in the late decolonization of southern Africa in the 1970s and 1980s; and the shifting alliances between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa during the 1970s. These case studies are used to contextualize a broader assessment of the high costs of Cold War interventions and proxy wars in terms of human lives lost and the promotion of authoritarian leadership in much of the continent.

Then followed the great losers: Mr Azarias Ruberwa got 1.69 per cent, Mr [Jean-Pierre Bemba] Pay-Pay wa Syakassighe 1.58 per cent, Mr Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi 0.57 per cent and Mr Arthur Z'Ahidi Ngoma 0.34 per cent. \"This conflict is meaningless as both [Joseph Kabila] and Bemba will be present at the second round of the election,\" Ms Angel Kavuo, a lawyer declared from the city of Bukavu, the capital of the South Kivu province. The provinces of the eastern DRCongo massively voted for President Kabila while those of the west preferred Mr Bemba.