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...reduced forces centered near Baghdad. The Bush Administration would like to avoid the stigma of American occupation and share the security of the country after weeks of violence and looting. Neighborly Advice zimbabwe South African President Thabo Mbeki confirmed that he will travel to Harare this week, accompanied by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Malawian leader Bakili Muluzi, for talks with President Robert Mugabe on the country's economic and political crisis. But Mbeki's spokesman denied reports that the group would pressure Mugabe to step down. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai criticized the planned visit, saying the only solution...
...They should not do anything that will send Nigeria into another problem of darkness." JERRY GANA, Nigerian information minister, on accusations from the opposition party that the recent presidential election was rigged
DIED. BABATUNDE OLATUNJI, 76, influential Nigerian drummer whose 1959 album, Drums of Passion, the first African drumming collection recorded in stereo in a U.S. studio, set off a wave of African-jazz fusion in the 1960s; of diabetes; in Salinas, Calif. Carlos Santana's first single, Jingo, was a remake of the Olatunji number...
...Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party won a majority in both houses of parliament. Opposition parties rejected the results, claiming the election was marred by widespread abuses. The legislative elections and last weekend's presidential ballot - which Obasanjo was favored to win - are seen as a key test of Nigerian democracy, following 15 years of military rule that ended in 1999. Mugabe Agonistes ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe lashed out at protests to his rule in a speech marking the nation's 23rd year of independence. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said that with the world's attention fixed...
WOLE SOYINKA. Soyinka, who won a Nobel Prize in 1986 and had a price placed on his head by Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha in the late 1990s, reads from his most recent work and discusses the amazing life he has led. The lecture, sponsored by the Department of African-American Studies, focuses on Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known, a book of poems written while the author was fleeing for his life. His latest effort meditates on his public and private lives, including a work in memory of Francois Mitterand and others dedicated to writers Josef Brodsky and Chinua...