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They got everybody to the Congo peace table except the ones who really matter. After six weeks of haranguing over which rebel groups got to sign where, the document that is solemnly being called the "Lusaka Accord" bears all the big names: Congolese president Laurent Kabila and his backers in Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, plus two rebel groups (and one splinter group) with their backers, Rwanda and Uganda, witnessing. But TIME chief of correspondents Marguerite Michaels doesn?t give peace much of a chance until all the soldiers lay their guns down. "I?m not optimistic," she says, "because there...
Arriving in Lusaka today, a visitor might think Zambia is a country emerging from war. Stretches of road in the capital look as if they have been under mortar bombardment. Buildings are dilapidated, vehicles rattletrap. Thousands live in tin-shelter shantytowns. Unemployment and crime are running high. Zambia has become one of the poorest nations anywhere, with one of the world's highest per capita foreign debts -- nearly $1,000 for each of its 8 million people; average annual income per person is less than $290. As in many African countries, a small layer of extremely wealthy people flourishes above...
...Dirk Coetzee, a former policeman who now supports the African National Congress and lives in exile in Zambia. Coetzee testified last summer that former colleagues on the South African police force were behind the hit-squad deaths of several A.N.C. activists. The parcel bomb was sent to Coetzee in Lusaka. But when he refused to pay the duty on the package, it was sent to Mlangeni's Johannesburg law firm, falsely listed as the return address. Intrigued by a tape marked EVIDENCE OF HIT SQUADS, the lawyer took the tape player home and put on the headset that had been...
...long cost just 5 cents a pound. But two weeks ago, the government hiked the price to 12 cents as part of an austerity drive, and the effect on Zambians, who earn on average only $21 a month, was incendiary. Riots erupted in major cities last week, and in Lusaka, the capital, street battles between protesters and security forces left 45 people dead and 153 injured...
...singer Harry Belafonte. Long before Mandela left Johannesburg on June 4 for Botswana, the first stop on his tour, they were deluged with requests for appearances and meetings. So many of the entreaties were honored that two weeks ago A.N.C. leaders in the Zambian capital of Lusaka requested that the tour be pared down...