Word: zaireans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unexpected takeover of their rival (TIME Daily) ... Hundreds of passengers are feared dead after a ferry sank off the coast of Haiti (Reuters) ... Paula Jones' lawyers want out of her suit against President Clinton (TIME Daily) ... The illness that helped bring down Mobutu Sese Seko finally killed the former Zairean dictator (TIME Daily) ... Mir's main computer fails, but the crew sleeps on (TIME Daily) ... Palestinians are cracking down on Islamic militants as Madeleine Albright prepares for her Mideast peace mission (Reuters) ... Mourning continues for Princess Diana (People) and Mother Teresa (Life), while the "Saint of Calcutta" appears...
RABAT: The prostate cancer that killed Mobutu Sese Seko here Sunday night was the one that sounded the death knell for his Zairean dictatorship, according to TIME Nairobi correspondent Peter Graff. "In the last year, he became physically sick, incapable of functioning as a leader ... That's when his people began to say things about Mobutu they never dared say before, and when his own army refused to fight for him. It was his sickness that did it. He ruled for 32 years and was ousted in seven months...
Last month Zairean villagers attacked the refugee camps with machetes and stole all the supplies they could find. They were backed up by rebels who reportedly fired into the throngs with automatic rifles. Last week, to refute the charges of atrocities, Kabila's soldiers began delivering a few thousand refugees, many sick and mangled, from the jungle camps to Kisangani, where they could be airlifted home...
...also wonders whether Kabila will choose to rule by himself or open up Zairean politics to other parties. "I cannot tell you that we think he is a democrat," says Burns. Museveni was not pleased when Kabila visited him last month and said he was about to announce the names of those who would serve in his new government. "I asked him, 'What's the hurry?'" says Museveni. "We cannot run Zaire for him, but we can try to help him avoid mistakes." He fears Kabila wants to dominate the country until elections are held--who knows when--and warns...
Last October Kagame staged a cross-border incursion, joining Zairean Tutsi rebels to rout murderous Hutu militias that had fled across the frontier with the civilian refugees. When Mobutu's army vanished in the face of this onslaught, a full-scale Zairean rebellion suddenly seemed possible. Museveni told his Rwandan friend to tap Laurent Kabila as the leader of a broader movement, and today Kabila, with key help from Kagame, is ready to take Zaire...