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Playful Peaceniks Infinite accolades for the valiant wildlife conservationists who are striving to safeguard the intelligent, sociable and lovable bonobos in the perilous Congo [May 26]. If they do not succeed, it will be imperative to relocate endangered bonobos to safer havens and sanctuaries to ensure their survival. Brien Comerford, GLENVIEW...
...Muyumba thought he was done with killing when he left the Democratic Republic of Congo. After civil war erupted there in 1998, he watched friends, family and millions of his countrymen die as neighbor turned on neighbor. Seven years ago, he arrived in South Africa, the continent's richest country, to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor in Africa's best schools. Now, seeking refuge from murderous crowds in a central Johannesburg police station, he feels as vulnerable as he did back in Congo. "They're our own neighbors - we lived together, and I gave them food," he says...
...Africans vent their frustration on the only group more vulnerable than them: foreigners. As Africa's most developed nation, South Africa has long been a magnet for refugees and economic migrants. Since 2000, some 800,000 Zimbabweans have joined the tens of thousands of immigrants from Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Congo and Somalia already in South Africa. Many of them have shared Muyumba's plight in recent weeks. He was chased from his hut in Alexandra in the latest violence, only to be forced out of a second in Kya Sand; he finally found tenuous shelter with thousands of others...
Remy Kasanda long held such hopes. He had just finished high school in the Congo when he was conscripted into a rebel army. While he fought, his family was killed. Six years ago, he fled to South Africa and found work as a security guard. Now comes the reckoning. "I was at work when my friends called me to tell me that my house was on fire," he says. "On my way into town, a mob attacked me with sticks." Arriving at hospital, "the South African doctor told me: all you foreigners must go home." Kasanda's damning verdict...
...forces of globalization and communism's end have created criminal networks. In Africa, for example, proxy conflicts of the cold-war continent mutated into much more deadly struggles between criminally financed militias over minerals. Nowhere was this more clear than in the awful war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that broke out in 1998. In large measure, the war was driven by complex criminal conspiracies. A map of the main zones of conflict between the various armies and militias coincides with a map of the concentration of the D.R.C.'s natural resources. Militias pillaged anything they could find...