Two missing priests alive

Brazzaville - Two Roman Catholic priests, among nine Europeans missing for days in Congo Republic's turbulent southern region…

Brazzaville - Two Roman Catholic priests, among nine Europeans missing for days in Congo Republic's turbulent southern region, have turned up alive in the oil town of Pointe Noire, church officials said yesterday. Father Georges Laloux, a French man, and Father Lucien Favre, a Swiss, arrived in the port town on Wednesday night.

The pair, from the Spiritains order, and seven other Europeans, went missing in the southern town of Dolisie on Monday following fighting between government troops and rebels.

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