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Construction of country roads for better access to the local farmers associations of Babua. (Photographs by H. Goldstein for Inforcongo).
NAB, Archives INEAC, no. 10123.

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125 years after the General Act of the Berlin Conference

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Belgium 75 years in Central Africa

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