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Ending a 19-year war, Angola's warring factions signed a ceasefire agreement today. Under the plan signed by top generals of the government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), fighting -- which began on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975 -- will stop Wednesday. The truce will remain in effect until final details emerge as part of a United Nations-brokered peace treaty, which is scheduled to be signed Sunday. That accord aims to close the book on the civil war in Angola -- the longest and bloodiest battle in Africa. "The Angolan...
...uniformed soldiers on the street, Raul's troops are involved in every aspect of the economy, from running plants to planting food. The general has plugged military men loyal to him -- some retired, some still active -- into influential positions. Professional soldiers who once earned battle medals as mercenaries in Angola and Ethiopia are now assigned to repair city pipelines, build tourist hotels and direct industrial production. Generals are donning civilian clothes to run quasi-private corporations, from tourist hotels to department stores...
When Rogers finds such a hospitable environment, he gets very excited, parks his bike at the local exchange and buys a selection of stocks on the spot. These days Rogers is bullish on the darnedest places: Peru, Angola, Cameroon, and especially Botswana -- all seven of that country's stocks. Botswana has a stable currency, prosperous mines, rich natural resources, a 10% growth rate and no tribal conflicts to speak of, and the stock exchange is one desk in a banker's office. He likes New Zealand, which has cheap stocks and is starting to emerge from 10 years of depression...
...knows how many -- and we may never know. The bodies not rotting by the roads are buried in mass graves or floating down the rivers, far away from the arithmetic of history. With this latest tragedy in its long litany of tribal massacres, Rwanda joins Angola, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Bosnia and Nagorno- Karabakh in defining what barbarism means in the late 20th century, and defying the rest of the world to try to do something about...
...again a clean, green ghetto for foreigners. Tourism is supposed to be the country's short-term salvation, but it also accentuates the difference between those with dollars and those without. Everyone wants to work at Varadero: hotel maids earn more in tips than peso-poor engineers; teachers and Angola veterans drive cabs; and psychologists make plane reservations. The expertise of the Cubans who work for Eamonn Donnelly, the Irish manager of two German-owned hotels, runs from agronomy to piloting MiG fighters...