Trésor Wamba, a tenor, struggles to persuade his teenage friends that the concert won’t send them to sleep.

男高音万巴（Trésor Wamba）劝他十几岁的朋友们来音乐会，保证他们不会听睡着；

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But the Ugandans, declaring that Mr Wamba was the victim of a coup engineered by Rwanda, helped him establish new headquarters in Kisangani.

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Trying to lower his profile, he begs reporters to ascribe his words to the rebellion's non-Tutsi leader, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, a former history professor.

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Uganda also stayed loyal to former RCD leader Ernest Wamba dia Wamba after he lost the rebel presidency in May 1999, encouraging him to make Kisangani his capital.

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