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...World Wildlife Fund; and an impassioned call to action from Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist. (Goodall faxed her essay to us with apologies that she wouldn't be around for a while to answer editors' questions. She was heading soon into a rain forest in the Republic of the Congo...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO After 2.5 Million Killed, Hope of Peace Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaïre) signed an agreement to end the four-year war that has killed about 2.5 million people and effectively divided one of Africa's biggest countries in two. The agreement, signed in South Africa, requires Rwanda to withdraw its troops from eastern Congo within three months. In return the Congolese government in Kinshasa would disarm the Hutu responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsi tribespeople in Rwanda and send their leaders for trial before...
...asks Mathatha Tsedu, head of the South African National Editors Forum. When the A.U. gets down to examining the fitness of its own members, it will have to look not just at Zimbabwe but also at Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), where there are decidedly, as Gaddafi would put it, different styles of "democracy." Perhaps that assessment will even include Libya, where Gaddafi came to power in a 1969 military coup, rules by decree and has never had a democratic election...
...exchange for lifting sanctions and for the removal of Libya from the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism. Libya has consistently denied involvement in the bombing, even after Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former member of the Libyan security organization, was found guilty in 2001. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Killing Fields Aid workers in Kisangani reported that Rwandan-backed rebels in eastern Congo have carried out mass executions in revenge for an uprising two weeks before. The bodies of at least 170 people have been found in mass graves. The rebels accused of the killings, the Congolese Rally...
...absurdly horrible that one might be tempted to laugh if all of these things were not actually happening right now—in Africa. In the Great Lakes region of central Africa, factions backed by six countries have been waging a bitter war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), looting Congo’s lumber and mineral resources while they’re at it. The opposition leader who chops off children’s hands and forces them to serve in his rebel army is not a figment of my imagination, but Foday Sankoh, leader of Sierra...