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- 1 2 3 Ministry of the Budget, CV [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ CIA World Leaders, Democratic Republic of the Congo Archived May 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ France Diplomatie
- ↑ Worldcat
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