Word: zambia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fate, the flamboyant Mobutu was busy with a rescue operation of his own. Clad in battle fatigues and accompanied by an honor guard and a brass band, he appeared again and again at Lubumbashi airport at the head of a cavalcade of Jeeps and Mercedes sedans. He greeted Zambia's visiting President Kenneth Kaunda, and China's Foreign Minister Huang Hua, who had flown to Shaba to emphasize Peking's opposition to Soviet-Cuban influence in Africa. On his visit to Peking, President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, had reportedly urged the Chinese...
Khama is president of a landlocked democratic country of 720,000 inhabitants bordered by South Africa, Angola, Zambia and Rhodesia. The country has voted in the United Nations to impose economic sanctions against South Africa. Despite its proximity to South Africa, the government has successfully maintained Botswana's independence, unlike other bordering states in the region...
...classic example. Almost from the day of its birth in 1960, the country was plunged into a nightmare of mutiny, rebellion and bloodshed. The most dangerous incident was the attempted secession of Katanga, homeland of more than 1.5 million Lunda tribesmen, who also live in northwestern Zambia and eastern Angola. The rebellion was led by Mo'ise Tshombe, whose followers were seeking to preserve their mineral wealth from their enemies, the government in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) and the Bak-ongo tribes of the lower Congo. In those days the secessionists were thought to be rightists in the hire...
Although the rebels had come on foot, many rode home aboard an estimated 350 vehicles stolen from Kolwezi residents. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, who visited northern Zambia last week, reported that the improbable parade looked like "the largest and best organized stolen-car ring in history: dozens of sparkling Peugeots and Fiats, sedans and pickups, careening along amid clouds of dust, blue-and-gold Zaïre license plates glinting in the sun. One overloaded car carried a man clinging to its hood. Occasionally a stolen truck passed by jammed with rebels, not in uniform but arrayed...
Some of the rebels retreated along the east-west Benguela railroad toward the town of Chicapa, where the F.N.L.C. fighters and their families make up a community of 35,000 people. Others traveled dirt roads in northern Zambia to a forward camp at Kameni, just across the border in Angola, where recent travelers in the area reported seeing the lights of hundreds of campfires...