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ACROSS CENTRAL AFRICA

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by JUDITH LISTOWEL
Reports from a tour just ended 3: The United States of Central Africa in which the Congo, the Chad Republic. and the Central African Republic grouped last year
' In Kinshasa I talked for an hour with President Mobutu, who sent me in his own helicopter to see his farm (very good) on which he has built, by way of his country residence, a pagoda!
' In Chad I coincided with the West German President in whose honour everything closed down for four-and-a-half days. No European is allowed beyond ten kilometres of Fort Lamy without a permit from the Minister of the Interior in person. for banditry is rampant.'
Nigeria: Thursday, 10.45

Source: Radio Times

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