Algeria is giving material and moral support to the revolutionaries in the Congo (Leopoldville), Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, the Algerian foreign minister announced on December 7th in Khartoum before his departure for Addis Ababa. The announcement was published by the newspaper Alger Ce Soir the same evening. The minister said that Algerie had sent three planes carrying food and medical supplies to the Congolese patriots.
These supplies are to pass through the Sudan. The Sudanese Foreign Minister was reported to have announced in Khartoum that his country would allow the passage of any plane carrying food and medical supplies for Congolese patriots. Algeria was faithful to its promise of supporting and aiding all struggles for national liberation and the liquidation of imperialism and colonialism in Africa, said Alger Ce Soir. "Puppet Tshombe backed by the U.S. and Belgian imperialists is carrying out a genocide of the Congolese people", the paper said. On the same day the Algerian Press Service said: "Belgium and the U.S. have supplied arms and paratroopers to crush the Congolese people's struggle by force of arms. It would be naive to think that this imperialist challenge to the Africans will go unanswered."