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...Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa called a conference of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the Zambian capital Lusaka to discuss the delay in the release of results in Zimbabwe's presidential race. Though Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won a parliamentary majority in the March 29 vote, the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) has not released the official result in the presidential race. An independent survey places Tsvangirai well ahead in the vote, and the MDC itself claims an outright victory after 28 years of Mugabe's rule...
...drive China out of Sudan" so that the West can get at its oil. The latter view is likely to win out for now. China's foreign policy in Africa is driven by economics. When a local paper in Zambia reported last week that China's ambassador to Lusaka warned that Beijing might cut off diplomatic relations with that country if its voters elected a Taipei-leaning opposition candidate in upcoming presidential elections - an allegation Beijing denied - it seemed obvious China was looking out for its growing mining interests in the copper-rich country. But as China's influence...
...entering the townships to cover the unrest, many have poured their energies into chasing down rumors. Word had it last week that Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress who has been serving a life sentence since 1964, might soon be released and deported to Lusaka, Zambia, where the A.N.C. has its headquarters. The reports were fueled largely by the fact that the 67-year-old Mandela, who underwent prostate surgery four weeks ago, had not yet been returned from a hospital in Cape Town to his cell in Pollsmoor Prison. State President P.W. Botha tried...
...government had more stern words when seven clergymen of various races from the Dutch Reformed Church proposed to travel to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, to meet with the outlawed African National Congress. Botha responded with anger. "The government has expressed its strong viewpoint on discussions with the A.N.C., which is a murderous organization," a spokesman for his office said. The government had raised a furor a week earlier when it seized the passports of eight Afrikaner students who had scheduled a trip to Lusaka, and it was widely expected that some similar action would be taken against the seven...
Ever since Mandela's arrest in 1962 on charges of attempted sabotage and treason, his former deputy, Oliver Tambo, now 68, has run the A.N.C. from exile, currently in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The A.N.C. has received support from the Soviet Union, as well as some Western nations, and is increasingly co operating with the also banned South African Communist Party. The alliance has made it convenient for the Pretoria government to describe the township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number...