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...division of the continent is very bad. We have almost 15 countries subject to civil war, or regional war, like in Congo. The national countries are not in a position to continue like this. Some countries cannot even pay the salaries of their armies. We are losing 1.5 million people from malaria, and 2 million from AIDS. We have to get together...
...will the African Union made a difference in a conflict like the Congo...
...African leaders met to discuss the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and recommit themselves to the peace accord signed 18 months ago and broken ever since. But the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, which both back Congolese rebel groups and have their own troops in the vast central African country, refused to attend. In a small breakthrough, Congolese President Joseph Kabila said he would accept the former Botswanan leader, Ketumile Masire, as a mediator. Joseph's father, the former Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, who was assassinated last month, had rejected Masire's involvement...
...Francistown, where the international trade routes converge and at least 43% of adults are HIV-positive. He is a cheerful man even after 12 hard hours behind the wheel freighting rice from Durban. He's been on the road for two weeks and will reach his destination in Congo next Thursday. At 39, he is married, the father of three and a long-haul trucker for 12 years. He's used...
Only one audience member asked about the implications of Kagame's recent meeting in the U.S. with Congo's new president, Joseph Kabila, who came to power when his father was assasinated last month...