Africanews July 2000 - Contents/Editorial

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AFRICANEWS - News and Views on Africa from Africa
Issue 52 - July 2000
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CONTENTS

A   DR Congo: US Policy Debacle Brings Death to Millions in the Congo
B   Sudan: Nuba Mountains: on the edge of change
C   Ghana: Unending war between traditional religion and Christianity
D   Rwanda: The appeal of former Rwandan Prime minister Jean Kambanda
E   Zambia: Bishops challenge government on social crisis
F   South Africa: Africa's hopes to host World Cup dashed
G   Sudan: Book Review The hidden treasure of Sudan
H   Clippings
I   War and Peace
J   Action and Contacts
K   For your agenda




Editorial

What is the impact of policies designed by international organisations
and foreign countries to Africa?  In this issue, Linda de Hoyos,
Brings into the limelight the devastating situation in DR Congo. This
years alone, she reports, hostilities broke out again in Kisangani, a
strategic city and rich in diamonds and gold.  She further reports
that the post-cold war policy for Africa architected by British
intelligence and allied American interest, to annex eastern Congo to
Rwanda and Uganda is in ruins.  This has brought death to millions of
Congolese people.  For instance 1.7 million deaths were reported in
eastern Congo since August 1998, when Rwanda and Uganda invaded the
country.

Central Sudan, Paul Donohue files a story of a people so full of life
and hope.  The Nuba people, in their simplicity of life, are still
struggling to fight for their rights and human dignity.  He reports of
the people's burning desire for good health care and education.  They
understand that it is through good health and education that a people
can be free.

The relationship between Christians and African traditionalist in
Ghana is not at its best.  A group representing traditional Religions
intends is threatening to stage a street protest against the teaching
of Christian religion in public schools.  Their argument is that
children should be given their right to choose that religion they want
when they grow up. They also charge that the teaching of Christian
virtues is schools has not yielded any desirable results for the
country but has made children "wayward and predisposed to crime and
immorality", reports Amos Safo.

 From the international Tribunal for Rwanda, Mary Kimani reports on one
of the recent cases in the court. Jean Kambanda, former Prime Minister
pleaded guilty to six counts of genocide.  Judge Laity Kama sentenced
him to life imprisonment, the harshest sentence ever imposed on
someone who has pleaded guilty.

Members of Zambia Episcopal Conference have issued a statement
entitled `Solidarity in Face of the Country's Social Crisis'. The
statement is a follow up to the communique that the members released
early this year. Clement Njoroge reports the member's concern and
worry that nothing significant has happened to improve the lives of
majority of Zambian poor.

Charles Dempsey, the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) President,
is in the centre of controversy after abstaining from voting in the
July 6 world governing  body FIFA to determine who hosts the 2006
world cup. The controversial vote which awarded the tournament to
Germany has been received with racial overtones in South Africa. Ben
Molapo reports.

`The Day of Devastation, The Day of Contentment' is the newest title
of a book on the church in Sudan.  The book, launched late last month
in Nairobi, Kenya, traces the history of the church all the way from
ancient Nubia to the present day.  Our correspondent, Fr Kizito,
interviewed the author and reviewed the book and says it is truly
extraordinary that such a book exists about a country devastated by
war.

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