1.   And Congolese officials apparently feel the document places the rebels on equal footing with their government, which they object to.

2.   After two days of confused and conflicting statements, Congolese officials confirmed Thursday that President Laurent Kabila was dead.

3.   Congolese officials caused long delays in allowing the team to enter the country and begin fieldwork.

4.   Congolese officials and state companies are finding new interest from Western investors, though apprehension remains about official corruption.

5.   For the last two days, Congolese officials had insisted that Kabila was alive, even while some African and Western governments were saying that he had died.

6.   Foreign officials said that Congolese officials likely held off on an official announcement of the death as they attempted to put a successor in place.

7.   From the outset, Congolese officials have denounced the uprising as a thinly veiled Rwandan invasion of their country.

8.   He said he had talked to top Congolese officials, who told him that the president was dead.

9.   Mahachi said Congolese officials made the decision to bring Kabila to Zimbabwe as the wounded president was being flown from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa.

10.   The tone of its first meetings with Congolese officials has been cooperative.