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...Stability's Sake GUINEA-BISSAU Three days after being ousted in a bloodless military putsch, President Kumba Yala formally resigned his post. Coup leader General Verissimo Correia Seabra accused Yala of causing "political instability" in the impoverished former Portuguese colony in West Africa. Seabra promised to cede power to a transitional government that would oversee elections. Yala, who remained under house arrest, dissolved parliament in November and canceled polls four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 9/21/2003 | See Source »

Although six undergraduate dancers authored the report, 25 student groups including the HRDC, the Kumba Singers and the Mozart Society Orchestra, have signed onto the committee's demands for a slot on the Mainstage...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dancers Call for Fifth Slot on Mainstage | 5/10/2000 | See Source »

Finance Committee member Jeremy R. Jenkins '97-'98 said about 30 groups such as the Kumba Singers and the Black Students Association were also refused funding due to this rule...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: U.C. OKs Funding for Student Groups | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...graves by hand. Officials began to fear that the bloated carcasses of cows, goats, pigs and chickens rotting in the equatorial heat would lead to a cholera or typhoid epidemic. Army efforts were further hampered by the handful of survivors who refused to leave their lifeless villages. In Cha, Kumba Ndongabang sat beneath a thatched platform, staring at the two graves where his five wives are now buried. "All my women die," he grieved, his voice rising and falling with the simple rhythms of the native Pidgin English. "If I go, who make home for me? Where I go? Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameroon the Lake of Death | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

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