Word: angola
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...others. We are doing a lot in mediation, but it is not very effective. You need quick action. Look what the Europeans did in Kosovo. They intervened quickly and saved the situation. We cannot do that in Africa. For the last 30 years, there is a civil war in Angola, and the world is silent about it. No one can stop this war. United, we could...
...that began as a rebellion in the east of the country in August 1998 quickly became an African scramble for Africa. Rwanda and Uganda, which had supported Kabila pere in his campaign to end the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko, backed the rebellion after falling out with Kabila. Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe supported the Congolese President in return for the promise of lucrative oil and mining concessions. A peace accord signed 18 months ago by the main protagonists called for a cease-fire, but fighting has dragged...
...Sese Seko had no interest in defending the borders of a state that hadn't paid them for years. Mobutu's kleptocracy had finally reduced Zaire to an empty shell of a state. And that gave the Rwandans the idea of marching on the capital together with Uganda and Angola to oust Mobutu and install a government that would stop the cross-border insurgencies that menaced all three. Thus was born the presidency of Laurent Kabila, for it was to the rotund Maoist warlord that the Angolans, Rwandans and Ugandans looked when forced to quickly find an indigenous face...
...fomented widespread resentment in the ranks of those who'd fought in the rebel armies of the east. When Kabila switched his support to the Hutu groups in 1997, the Rwandans and Ugandans resolved to overthrow him - and quickly. And they'd have succeeded, but for the intervention of Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia to shore up Kabila...
...colony he claimed as his personal property inspired history's first international human rights campaign, as well as Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." It's still there on the map, of course - a territorial behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem, too. Its government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing...