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...Zimbabwe, some of them encamped at bus stations and marketplaces and in fields. The Marymount Mission near Rushinga in northeastern Zimbabwe is serving a daily ration of beans and soup to refugees. Although local Zimbabweans have been generous to the Mozambicans, who are of the same tribe, the Shona, their country is also stricken by drought and there is little food available. However, the U.N.'s World Food Program has agreed to supply Zimbabwe with foodstuffs worth $1 million to feed the refugees. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees have...
...shared leadership of the seven-year guerrilla war that in 1980 ended white rule of the country, then known as Rhodesia. Since that time, however, Mugabe has systematically undermined his former partner's power. Earlier this year, government troops, most of them members of Mugabe's dominant Shona tribe, killed hundreds of Nkomo's Ndebele tribesmen in what was billed as a campaign against dissenters...
...principal characters in the drama were Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and Opposition Leader Joshua Nkomo. The two men had been comrades-in-arms in the seven-year guerrilla war against the white Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith. The partnership continued even after Mugabe, whose Shona tribal constituency makes up almost 80% of the country's population, won the preindependence elections in 1980. But it ended abruptly a year ago after the government discovered arms caches on property belonging to several of Nkomo's political allies. The government charged Nkomo's Ndebele tribesmen, who constitute about...
...months ago, Mugabe's government sent an armed force led by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland, the Ndebele homeland in the southwestern part of the country, to crush a rising tide of resistance and lawlessness. The soldiers, most of whom are Shona tribesmen, killed hundreds of Ndebele civilians. Two weeks ago, the Fifth Brigade moved into the suburbs of Bulawayo, the main city in Matabeleland, and conducted house-to-house searches for dissidents. The soldiers even invaded Nkomo's home, where they killed an employee and ransacked the property. That night Nkomo, who had gone...
...against the white Rhodesian government and led his country to independence as black-ruled Zimbabwe three years ago. His fortunes have been declining ever since. He lost the presidential elections to Mugabe, largely because his Ndebele tribe is less than a fourth the size of Mugabe's predominant Shona constituency. Nkomo served in Mugabe's Cabinet for 22 months, but was dropped last year amid rumors that his followers were plotting against the government. A week ago, Nkomo was detained while trying to leave Zimbabwe on a trip to Prague, where he was to attend a meeting...