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2. Special National Intelligence Estimate

are less apprehensive of continuing connections with the former metropole. Tunisia, Liberia, and Ethiopia have committed themselves to no Congolese faction, and would like to see an impartial and orderly solution of the Congo’s problems by the UN . Nigeria falls generally into the same category. Nevertheless, these four countries also regard Lumumba as the legal Prime Minister. The Sudan has voted with the Guinea-Ghana- UAR faction in the UN , but up to the time of writing has not given support to Lumumba in the Congo. Nor has the government openly granted general transit rights to the countri…