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 | | The five people were shot when police moved in to disperse supporters of veteran opposition politician Etienne Tshisekedi after they burned the office of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy, close to President Joseph Kabila, and of another movement, Radio Okapi reported. |
 | | The mayor of Mbuji-Maya, the chief town of Kasai-Oriental province, a stronghold of Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), told AFP the report by the UN-backed Radio Okapi was right on the arson attacks but could not confirm the gunshot cases. |
 | | Tshisekedi, a former prime minister and central bank manager before the ouster in 1997 of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and two wars, which ended in 2003, had declared June 30 the deadline date for the end of the political transition process being monitored by a UN force of 16,700 troops, police and civilians. |
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