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...Rebel movements backed by Rwanda and Uganda control half of the country, and they're urging Kabila the younger to return to a peace agreement consistently sabotaged by his father. The U.S. and other Western powers are scrambling to restrain Uganda and Rwanda, as well as Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia, which fought on Kabila's side, from seeking military advantage in the uncertainty following this week's assassination. Eternal optimists are still talking about a mooted U.N. peacekeeping mission of 5,500 troops, although its deployment is about as likely as snowstorms in the Congo's lush rain forests...
...ranks of those who'd fought in the rebel armies of the east. When Kabila switched his support to the Hutu groups in 1997, the Rwandans and Ugandans resolved to overthrow him - and quickly. And they'd have succeeded, but for the intervention of Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia to shore up Kabila...
...Hutu militants, Rwanda launched a lightning operation to overthrow him. But where the defeat of Mobutu had relied in part on the intervention of Angolan forces over Congo's western border, the renewed Rwandan invasion took the Angolans by surprise, and they raced in, together with Zimbabwe and Namibia, to shore up Kabila. Uganda once again fought alongside the Rwandans, although those two clashed over just which army would control territory "liberated" from Kabila's government forces, and found themselves fighting each other...
...artists, from the countries of Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho and Zambia, depicted the impact of AIDS on their countries in a wide variety of works. They used a range of media, from oil and acrylic paintings on canvas to sculpture, photography, linocuts and a variety of multimedia and mixed media works...
Both were hired in April for the South Africa book team. Johnson was slated to travel through Namibia and Gebeyehu-Houston was chosen for Botswana...