Word: zambian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure countries to ban trade in rhino horn or to enforce existing laws. Experts say that most Zimbabwean horn is smuggled through Zambia and on to distributors in Burundi and the United Arab Emirates. These countries have become targets for conservationists. "We need to expose and destroy the Zambian syndicate that deals in rhino horn," says Glenn Tatham, Zimbabwe's chief warden. "We need to hit the whole trade with an H-bomb, so to speak, of international outrage...
...government blamed all this violence on agents of the A.N.C. and publicly warned Zambia and other countries along South Africa's northern border to stop providing them with aid. On Saturday, South African commandos attacked the Zambian town of Livingstone, blowing up two buildings and killing five people who Pretoria claimed were A.N.C. guerrillas...
...English speakers tend generally to be more liberal than Afrikaners on racial questions. In September 1985 Relly and a cohort of other corporate leaders voyaged to the Zambian capital of Lusaka to confer with Oliver Tambo, the exiled president of the African National Congress. Relly later declared, "All of us at that meeting wanted to see a new coherent society based on demonstrable justice and a court-monitored bill of rights." Murray Hofmeyr, incoming chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, has called on South African business leaders to oppose injustice. And Michael Rosholt, chief executive of Barlow Rand, South...
...fearful that publicity about the AIDS epidemic will hurt tourism and foreign investment have continued to play it down. In Zambia, the Lusaka government banned all press statements on AIDS last March. Government officials are "putting their heads in the sand and hoping the disease cures itself," charges one Zambian doctor, who expects to see "scores of thousands of deaths from AIDS" in the next two years...
...fact, there was little evidence of any South African involvement in the crash. The accident occurred as Machel was returning from a Zambian summit meeting of so-called frontline black African states located near South Africa. Machel's official plane, a Soviet-made Tupolev 134-B, took off with 44 people aboard, including a Soviet crew of five. It refueled in Lusaka, then flew across Zimbabwe and headed south toward the Mozambique capital of Maputo. Violent thunderstorms were hitting the area, and visibility was poor. Near the South African town of Komatipoort, the Soviet pilot announced he had Maputo airport...