Eighty people were killed late Tuesday in a ferry accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman confirmed Thursday.
At a bend in a tributary of the mighty Congo River, dirt-poor villagers feverishly pan for the shiny stones that have proved as elusive as they are rare -- diamonds.
Government forces battled attackers at military installations and television headquarters in the Congolese capital on Kinshasa Sunday in what diplomats called a coup attempt against President Joseph Kabila.
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