• Short Summary

    In a major reshuffle of the top leadership in the People's Republic of the Congo on Thursday (16 December), Major Alfred Raoul was dropped from the office of Vice-president.

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    1.
    GV EXT Conference building.
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    2.
    SV Raoul enters.
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    3.
    SV Armed guards stand by as President Ngouabi arrives & enters ( 3 shots ).
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    4.
    LV & SV Pressmen.
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    5.
    SV INT Ngouabi & others saluting.
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    6.
    SV & LV INT Members seated ( 3 shots )
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    Background: In a major reshuffle of the top leadership in the People's Republic of the Congo on Thursday (16 December), Major Alfred Raoul was dropped from the office of Vice-president.

    M. Eoloise Moudileno-Massengo, Minister of Justice, replaced him in the Vice-Presidency while continuing to hold the Justice portfolio, and M. Dieudonne Mahoungou took over Major Raoul's Ministry of Commerce.

    The country's Ministry of Information was abolished and its functions taken over by a new Propaganda Commission of the political Bureau of the ruling Congo Labour Party.

    Some 50 party members were expelled or suspended on grounds which included practising fetishism or occult sciences, insufficient ideological knowledge and misconduct towards the revolution.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    VLVA554BDT1K32E8Y4H2SSU693OOZ
    Media URN:
    VLVA554BDT1K32E8Y4H2SSU693OOZ
    Group:
    Reuters - Source to be Verified
    Archive:
    Reuters
    Issue Date:
    19/12/1971
    Sound:
    Unknown
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:35:00
    Time in/Out:
    /
    Canister:
    N/A

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