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...Somalis argue that the Ethiopians want to drive the nomads out of the Ogaden and replace them with more tractable, farming people, who could be resettled on the narrow fertile strips along the Juba and Shebele rivers. "The Soviets pretend to be friendly to the Third World, but here, in Afghanistan, and other places, they are the oppressors of colonized people," says Abdullahi Hassan Mohamoud, secretary-general of the W.S.L.F. "If the U.S. helps us to counter Soviet aggression, it will have most of the world on its side." In recent months, he claims, American envoys in Mogadishu have begun...
...stagnant backwaters, a rumpled, skinny fugitive from L.L. Bean whose spoken English is hampered by a bad stutter. He is as puzzling and exotic to his hosts as they are to him, one of a long line of white hunters and note takers whom the wags of Juba on the White Nile call pink spiders. Only this one writes a blue streak...
Even after the Addis Ababa treaty, the tense and war-ravaged southern Sudan was closed to journalists. Last week TIME'S Robert Kroon was among the first Western newsmen in several years to visit Juba, the southern administrative post 1,000 miles from Khartoum, and the surrounding swamp and bush country, where vultures circle over deserted villages. His report...
Reconciliation is in the air, like the life-giving rains that signal the start of the wet season. The main street of Juba (pop. 130,000, swelled by refugees), a potholed red-dirt track, has been renamed "Unity Avenue." Overhead, banners in Arabic and English proclaim...
Instead, in the bloodiest single period of the war, Anya Nya rebels attacked government forces, brutally mutilating an Arab sergeant at Juba in the process. The Arab soldiers went berserk, killing hundreds of blacks and burning countless huts...