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...states of subequatorial Africa have varying degrees of involvement in the region's gathering racial, political and ideological confrontation. Some, like Rwanda and Burundi, which are both the poorest and most densely populated African countries (total pop. 8,300,000 in an area smaller than West Virginia), are too wrapped up in their own tribal rivalries to pay much attention to tensions elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate...
...from a Kenyan refinery and, as a Nairobi-based oil executive observed: "Amin's tanks and planes wouldn't get very far into Kenya without gas." In apparent retaliation, late last week the Ugandans seized about 30 Kenyan fuel trucks transiting Uganda on their way to Zaire, Rwanda and Sudan...
Right up to her last day in office, she was out of touch with reality. On that day, while soldiers in combat gear were taking up their coup positions, she went on with business as usual, receiving new ambassadors from Switzerland and Rwanda. Only when her helicopter, which she had boarded to go to her suburban villa, was diverted to the Buenos Aires municipal airport did she seem to realize what was happening. There, an officer told her bluntly: "Señora, you are under detention. The government you have led is a calamity. The armed forces are taking over...
...permanent dole. They have few, if any, easily exploitable resources to sell abroad, and most are seemingly unable to grow enough food to feed themselves. The most notable catastrophe countries are Mali, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and Bangladesh...
...Rwanda, a nation in east central Africa, has an area of only 10,000 sq. mi.-and seems to be too small for both elephants and men. Its population, now 4 million, has been increasing rapidly, creating a desperate demand for farm land. As starving tribesmen cultivated new forest acreage, less and less land was left for the local herds of elephants. Result: hungry pachyderms have been raiding the peasants' shambas, often devastating the small subsistence plots in the process -and further reducing the food supply. Rwanda's President, General Juvénal Habyalimana, therefore ordered that...