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...system. While this is no bad thing in itself, the tone is often that of a convention of prissy elitists. The name of an obscure Polish animator is always on the lips, waiting to be played as a cultural trump card. "I'll raise you an Angolan documentary maker..." "I'll see your Indonesian cinematographer - and top it with my surprising taste for the subtext of the 'Ernest' movies...
...been raised in Uganda speaking English and Swahili, Joseph Kabila is essentially a foreigner in a country where the national language is French and the most common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral of slain President Laurent Kabila, whom they had backed in his war against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda. The Kabila family's standing in Kinshasa may be illustrated by the fact that when Laurent Kabila was shot in his office...
...stop the Hutu gunmen operating from bases inside the Congo. When he turned on the Rwandans in his capital and made common cause with the Hutu militants, Rwanda launched a lightning operation to overthrow him. But where the defeat of Mobutu had relied in part on the intervention of Angolan forces over Congo's western border, the renewed Rwandan invasion took the Angolans by surprise, and they raced in, together with Zimbabwe and Namibia, to shore up Kabila. Uganda once again fought alongside the Rwandans, although those two clashed over just which army would control territory "liberated" from Kabila...
...left Mitterrand open to charges of complicity in arms trafficking and tax fraud, not to mention influence peddling. From 1986 to 1992, Mitterrand fils served as chief adviser on African affairs to his father, a position investigators suspect he may have exploited to facilitate the arms deal with Angolan officials. It will be months before it's known whether the case will make it to trial, but the prospects for Mitterrand's immediate future will be determined this week, when his request for release is expected to be heard...
...mounting international pressure to stop the trade in "blood diamonds"--stones unearthed in African killing fields that have helped fund conflicts in Angola, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. De Beers was rocked by disclosures that in 1992 the company bought $14 million worth of diamonds from Angolan rebels and has since scrambled to burnish its public image. In March, De Beers began selling stones with guarantees that they had not originated in war-torn areas. With its London announcement, the company went further, demanding that clients sign assurances not to buy diamonds from outlaw producers...