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...President released more than 100 detainees and made a point of inviting critics of past Nigerian governments to serve in his administration. He took steps to defuse tribal conflicts by distributing important government jobs among representatives of Nigeria's major tribes, the Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Babangida himself is a Muslim from the Nupe tribe in the northern part of the country. His striking wife Maryam is a Roman Catholic of Ibo background. The First Couple have become well known for their frequent soirees where guests can easily and openly engage in discussions of nearly every aspect of Nigerian...
Botha confined the remainder of his speech to summarizing the government's plans for racial reform. He promised to restore South African citizenship to blacks who live within South Africa but whose citizenship previously had been assigned to one of four "independent" tribal homelands. He also proposed extending to blacks in urban townships the right to buy, instead of merely rent, their own homes. He affirmed that the government will issue an identity document to South Africans of all races, replacing the "passes" that blacks are currently required to carry at all times...
...ravaged country, Museveni pledged at the outset to maintain Uganda's policy of nonalignment with the super powers and to improve the country's economic development by encouraging a mix of state and private enterprises. The new President also promised a return to parliamentary democracy and a rejection of tribal partisanship. He emphasized that his main goal was to restore respect for human rights, which have been openly abused in Uganda during the past 20 years. Museveni warned that those responsible for past atrocities would be punished...
Ever since it gained independence from Britain in 1962, Uganda has been racked by bouts of tribal war, political ineptitude and state-approved brutality that badly eroded the once lustrous prospects of a country that Explorer Henry Stanley called "the pearl of Africa." Uganda probably reached its nadir under the infamous Idi Amin Dada, who seized power in 1971 from the country's first leader, Apollo Milton Obote. During Amin's eight-year reign of terror, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people were killed, and thousands more were forced into exile. After the dictator expelled the country...
Behind them, across the water, the flames of tribal warfare had spread to the country's remote regions, and there was a danger that the fighting might eventually extend to North Yemen and beyond. How long the battle of South Yemen might continue was impossible to say. But at week's end the rebels, with apparent Soviet backing, were trying to cobble together some sort of provisional government...