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...Detractors also criticize his sudden rise to power - orchestrated, according to diplomats, by his Zimbabwean and Angolan allies. "The power today is dictated by Zimbabwe," says opposition leader Joseph Olenghankoy, who is calling for immediate talks on elections and last week, with other opposition leaders, met the head of the main rebel group Jean-Pierre Bemba to discuss a possible alliance. "The weight of Congo is too much for him. Politics needs strategy, and all he's got is foreign backing." Kabila says he will hold elections once the "foreign aggressors" have withdrawn and dismisses talk of foreign influence...
...oppose gay rights and seem personally repulsed that some of their citizens may be gay. Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has called homosexuality a scourge, while Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last year ordered the arrest of a gay couple for "abominable acts." Perhaps the best known gay-hater is Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has in the past described gays as "beasts," "perverts" and "lower than dogs and pigs...
...assume. Having been raised in Uganda speaking English and Swahili, Joseph Kabila is essentially a foreigner in a country where the national language is French and the most common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral of slain President Laurent Kabila, whom they had backed in his war against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda. The Kabila family's standing in Kinshasa may be illustrated by the fact that when Laurent Kabila was shot...
...meet three conditions (stay clean, get a job and pass an AIDS test) before he can win back his childhood sweetheart, Newton. As for the rest, Newton, who grew up in what she says was a largely colorblind atmosphere, is philosophical about her chances in Hollywood. "I am both Zimbabwean and English. I'm from nowhere," she says. "Because of my parents, however, I realized that it was a strength, not a weakness. You're a bridge; you legitimize mixed race-ness. Is it right? Natural? Beautiful? Yes. Race problems are just made up. Even the term is bulls...
Mugabe justifies the expropriations on the basis that white farmers acquired the land only after 19th-century British colonization had wrenched it from its original Zimbabwean owners, and that Britain should therefore pay compensation for white farms expropriated by his government. Britain has offered to help fund a land reform program, but only after the invasions are ended. Mugabe critics often point out that in many of the instances where the government has bought out white farmers, the land has found its way into the hands of the president's cronies rather than being redistributed among the rural poor. Western...