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...disease can't be treated, only contained. And the squalid refugee camps of northern Uganda - established to house people fleeing attacks by a sociopathic guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately contained, health officials are concerned that it could spread more rapidly in the Ugandan region, where there is much more frequent movement of people, particularly refugees from the LRA. Indeed, guerrilla attacks since the current outbreak have not only spread refugees far and wide, they've also...
...company's expansion is at least partly driven by 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...
...January, the Kennedy School's Center for International Development hosted Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, who leads of one of the rebel factions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Widely derided in Congo as a puppet of foreign powers that have invaded the country to plunder its diamond wealth, Wamba dia Wamba's own subordinates have admitted that his soldiers have been involved in at least one very bloody massacre of civilians...
...cold war brought murderous burdens that the U.N. has been unable to handle. U.N. troops are routinely asked to plunge into chaos--Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor. Annan isn't opposed to these missions. He has the courage to order the U.N. in wherever it is needed. But he has nightmares about trying to contain some of the world's most evil men with the resources of a local sheriff's department. He has tried that before: Rwanda, where 800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered by rival Hutu tribesmen; Srebrenica, Bosnia, where 8,000 Muslims were killed...
...released on Friday. The report charges that Washington had full knowledge of the genocide but "repeatedly and deliberately undermined all attempts to strengthen the U.N. military presence in Rwanda" after suffering losses in Somalia five months earlier. It also accuses France of allowing the perpetrators to escape to nearby Congo. Canada's former U.N. envoy STEPHEN LEWIS, one of seven authors, said the episode left "an almost incomprehensible scar of shame" on U.S. policy. "I don't know how MADELEINE ALBRIGHT lives with it." A State Department spokesman says that Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has talked...