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Crisis in Central Africa |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 1,765 Words, 11,169 Characters |
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UNITED STATES--One thing almost everyone can agree on about the Zaire crisis is that it is complex and becoming more so every day. While the international community may have sighed with relief as it watched more than half a million refugees stream into Rwanda, an estimated 200,000 others, many believed to be under the control of Rwandan Hutu militias, are still roaming eastern Zaire. ...
Questions and obstacles remain: The air-dropped food is likely to fall into the hands of armed Hutu guerrillas; the refugees are splitting into smaller groups, making them harder to find; Zaire refuses to grant the international force permission to overfly or enter its territory; and the crisis has spread, with Zaire and Uganda threatening reprisals against each other. Fighting in...
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...all number of countries. The rivalry between Paris and Washington over the African continent is often described as a "small war" between anglophones and francophones. In fact, the root of this antagonism, at least as seen by Washington, is economic. The real Franco-American arm wrestling match has to do with the oil fields in Angola, Congo, Chad and Gabon.
--L'Express
November 21, 1996
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