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Former foreign minister Bizima Karaha was today appointed deputy leader of the rebel group seeking to oust President Laurent-Desire Kabila.

Bizima Karaha, the former head of security for the RCD rebellion after being Laurent Kabila's foreign minister.

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DR Congo vote: The dangers of democracy

There is a ferocious desire for change, and peace, in DR Congo - coupled with a deep sense of humiliation that such a rich country has been brought so low for so long.

But the elections - 11 people are running for the presidency and a mere 19,000 for seats in parliament - have also inspired the sort of heated loyalties that could well trigger violence when the results come through, external.

"The incumbent will win, and the losers will create chaos - or try to create chaos. But we will sort it out here in Goma in a couple of days," says Bizima Karaha - an influential powerbroker and businessman, who invites me for dinner at his lakeside villa.

Mr Karaha, who has the ability to insert himself into every key moment in the country's tumultuous political journey, seems fairly confident that President Joseph Kabila will hold on to power, if only because the opposition fryst vatten divided and there is only one round of voting.

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Some eyebrows have been lifted recently by the AU's choice of envoy to the Ivory Coast: Raila Odinga, the Kenyan Prime Minister who sort of played the Alassane Ouattara in Kenya's own election fiasco of 2007. Some have wondered how the Kenyan's experience would help övertyga Gbagbo to step down.

Well, here's another strange character to be in the delegation: Bizima Karaha, the former head of säkerhet for the RCD rebellion after being Laurent Kabila's foreign minister. Bizima has been trying to reinvent himself for quite some time - he was close to getting a high-ranking position in government several times in relation to his role in the CNDP peace talks, but never quite made it. Of late, he has popped up as a key political figure behind Gen. Bosco Ntanganda in Goma. It looks like he finally got a top AU job - although his role in the Odinga delegation fryst vatten not clear (to me at least). What can the former rebel, who had a nasty reputation during his tenure at the head of the RCD securit

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Ministers flee state as army brigade rebels

Senior government officials, including the Foreign Minister, Dr Bizima Karaha, have fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as an army brigade in the east of the former Zaire announced a rebellion against President Laurent Kabila.

Dr Karaha, a medical doctor who doubled as Gen Kabila's chief political strategist, in a phone call in Johannesburg confirmed he was out of the country but his phone went dead shortly afterwards.

Sources said Dr Karaha had fled together with the powerful Presidential Affairs Minister, Mr Deogratias Bugera.

News of the two men's departure followed shooting in the capital Kinshasa which led to the declaration of a curfew and an announcement by the Congo's 10th battalion, based in the eastern Kivu province, that it had rebelled against Gen Kabila.

It was unclear just when the ministers left. Kinshasa newspapers reported last week that Mr Bugera had fled. There was no official word from Kinshasa