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** FILE ** In this Aug. 5, 2012, file photo, an M23 rebel walks the streets of the North Kivu town of Rubare near Rutshuru, 75 km (48 miles) North of Goma, Congo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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Ibrahim Nsanzimana is led out of his overcrowded jail at the Congolese military intelligence offices in Goma, eastern Congo, on Friday. (Associated Press)

Soldiers from the M23 rebel group show off July 7, 2012, in Bunagana, Congo, weapons captured from government troops, who fled to neighboring Uganda a day earlier as the rebel group took control of the border town. (Associated Press)

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The International Criminal Court may expand its war-crimes indictment against Congolese Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, seen here in June 2010 at the 50th anniversary celebration of Congo's independence. (Associated Press)

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In this Nov. 28, 1961 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, boys belonging to the Katangese Youth Movement, wearing improvised uniforms of their own design, drill with homemade wooden rifles in the native quarter of Elisabethville, Congo. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)

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In this Jan. 26, 1961 file photo, scores of eager hands reach towards the Congolese official who distributes small rations of dried fish and palm oil to people at the hospital in Miabi, South Kasai, Congo. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)

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In this Jan. 26, 1961 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, a sick and hungry Baluba child is photographed at the Miabi Hospital in South Kasai, Congo. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)

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** FILE ** Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, meets in July 2006 with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Congo near the Sudan border. (Associated Press)

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A woman walks March 5, 2012, amongst debris near buildings damaged by the previous day's explosions at a munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Congo. International experts fought to prevent a fire from reaching a second arms depot in the capital of the Republic of Congo, a day after a blaze set off a series of explosions so violent they flattened buildings, killing hundreds and trapping countless others under the falling debris. (Associated Press)

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Smoke from a blast at a weapons depot that rocked Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, is seen in a video image taken from across the Congo River in Kinshasa, Congo, on Sunday, March 4, 2012. (AP Photo via Associated Press Television News)

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A Congolese riot-police officer restrains a supporter of Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi outside the candidate's headquarters in Kinshasa, Congo, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Election volunteers tabulate results Sunday in Kinshasa, Congo. The tallies Tuesday showed President Joseph Kabila apparently winning a second term, but there were also charges of fraud and threats of massive protests. (Associated Press)

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A local operator reports security information into the Early Warning Radio Network, which supplies radios to remote jungle villages in Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan so villagers can report attacks by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army. (Invisible Children via Associated Press)

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Voters argue with election officials over the delayed opening Monday of a polling place in Kinshasa, the capital city of Congo. Residents waited to take part in presidential and legislative elections. (Associated Press)

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T.J. KIRKPATRICK / THE WASHINGTON TIMES "Today we are a failed state," says Nzanga Mobutu, who wants to correct the ills if elected as president of Congo, where his father ruled for 32 years.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS President Joseph Kabila (far left) arrives for the yearly national parade held in Kinshasa. He has held office for more than 10 years and recently secured constitutional changes that strengthen his powers and revise the country's voting system. He faces a possible challenge at the polls this November from Jean-Pierre Bemba, Vital Kamerhe and Etienne Tshisekedi (starting second photo, left). Mr. Bemba is awaiting a war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, and National Assembly President Vital Kamerhe, right, shake hands in Kinshasa, Congo, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. Ki-moon held up Congo's first elections in 46 years as a sign of hope for the rest of war-torn Africa, praising the country's fragile democracy Saturday. (AP Photo/John Bompeng) Veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi is seen at his residence in Kinshasa, Congo in this Thursday, June 15, 2006 photo. A former prime minister under the Mobutu regime, he remains an influential figure and his support could boost any of Congo's presidential hopefuls. (AP Photo)