Word: congoes
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...portray a "no" vote as an endorsement of the colonial past. But the minds of the urban voters was focused less on the distant past than on the present - runaway inflation, fuel shortages, repression of dissent and a military adventure in support of President Laurent Kabila in neighboring Congo that prompted the IMF to cancel all assistance to Zimbabwe. The first warning sign was there last winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut down by two days of riotous protests against fuel price hikes. With little prospect of an economic turnabout to deliver urban voters, Mugabe now faces a "long...
...diffuse. Last spring's "Rally for Justice" brought three unrelated, but important, issues to the steps of University Hall. It is unclear whether the Faculty recognized each of the three groups' legitimate complaints or merely dismissed the demonstration as a mob of rowdy students playing with megaphones and congo drums. Without a strong center, liberalism becomes the all-purpose name-tag that accompanies a hodgepodge of grievances...
...during his month in the post wants to keep the spotlight shining on Africa. He has already held an open discussion on sub-Saharan refugees, has invited Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms to address the council, and is trying to broker a peace in the multicountry Congo...