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USENET INTER PRESS NETWORK NEWS
UPDATED TWICE WEEKLY: TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
LAST UPDATE: 7-16-93 AT 8:30 A.M.
Article: 17093 of soc.culture.african
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Wise Man from the East)
Subject: The Nigerian saga..
Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 15:39:04 GMT
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>From the AP:
=======================================
Nigeria Opposition Party Abandons
Dictator's Power-Sharing Deal
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LAGOS, Nigeria - The political
party that apparently won last month's
presidential election backed away
Friday from a deal with the dictator.
The deal would have denied the
party's candidate the presidency.
The switch came after the leader of
Nigeria's Muslims stepped forward as an
ally in financier Moshood K.O. Abiola's
fight against the military's attempt to
block his election victory.
Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, head of the
military regime, met Friday with his
defense council, which itself is
divided over how to resolve the crisis
that erupted after the results of the
June election were nullified.
The Campaign for Democracy, which
called for pro-Abiola protests, said
troops killed at least 118 people in
riots this week.
Abiola, a billionaire publisher,
had a lopsided lead in unofficial vote
returns when Babangida abruptly halted
the count June 16.
Senior officials in Abiola's Social
Democrat Party rebelled Friday against
the party's executive council, which
agreed late Wednesday to form an
interim government with the rival
Republican Party.
The deal, endorsed by Babangida,
would have denied Abiola the
presidency.
''They were not speaking for the
party,'' Social Democrat Olawale Oshun,
majority leader in the civilian House
of Representatives elected last year,
said of the party council.
Oshun said party members were
insisting that Abiola be sworn in as
president as scheduled on Aug. 27 to
end a decade of military rule.
The political deal had touched off
an angry response from a large
cross-section of people in this West
African nation of Muslims, Christians
and 250 ethnic groups, the largest of
which are the Hausa and Yoruba.
The leader of Nigeria's Muslims,
Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki, pulled his
support from his fellow Hausa,
Babangida, and threw it to Abiola.
Abiola is a Yoruba. Babangida and
Abiola also are Muslims.
In a remarkable statement from a
man accused of fanning tribal rivalries
-which have cost thousands of lives in
recent years - Dasuki declared that
Abiola should be the new president.
''In Islam, there is no room for
ethnic rivalry,'' he said Thursday.
Many Nigerians and Western
diplomats believe Babangida voided the
presidential election because the
Hausa-dominated military would not
tolerate a Yoruba president.
--
God made *me* in his image...(Gen. 1:26)
From uwvax!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!kautaj Fri Jul 16 08:21:58 CDT 1993
Article: 17095 of soc.culture.african
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From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Wise Man from the East)
Subject: ANGOLA: Savimbi as Notorious as Ever!
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Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 15:51:45 GMT
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>From the AP:
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U.N. Envoys Urge Angolan Rebels
To Return To Peace Talks
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LISBON, Portugal - U.N. diplomats
urged Angola's rebels to return to
negotiations before Thursday.
That's the day U.N. Secretary-
General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has
threatened to withdraw all U.N. staff
from the southern African country.
Government troops, meanwhile,
repelled an attack on a key town
between the capital and rebel
headquarters, news reports said Friday.
U.N. envoy Alioune Blondin Beye
said he told UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi
in a meeting this week that peace talks
''would have to resume immediately and
urgently,'' the Portuguese news agency
LUSA reported.
Beye is trying to hammer out a
cease-fire between UNITA and the
government before Thursday.
Boutros-Ghali has said all U.N.
monitors may be withdrawn by then if a
peace accord is not reached.
Savimbi said he was willing to
return to talks, Beye said.
But Savimbi refused to commit to a
time or place, Beye added.
UNITA, the National Union for the
Total Independence of Angola, has
seized more than 80% of this vast
nation since refusing to accept the
results of elections last September
that the U.N. deemed free and fair.
Thursday, UNITA reportedly mounted
an attack on Gabela, a town 155 miles
southeast of the capital Luanda. Gabela
is a major government outpost between
the capital and the rebel's base in
Huambo, Angolan National Radio said.
The provincial government said
UNITA forces were repelled, according
to the report, which was monitored by
the British Broadcasting Corp. Lack of
access to the region made it impossible
to independently verify the report.
Civil war first broke out in Angola
on the eve of independence from
Portugal in 1975. An estimated 420,000
people have died.
--
God made *me* in his image...(Gen. 1:26)
From uwvax!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!kautaj Fri Jul 16 08:22:12 CDT 1993
Article: 17096 of soc.culture.african
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From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Wise Man from the East)
Subject: SOMALIA: The UN Peacekillers in Control of Mogadishu.
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Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 15:58:06 GMT
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>From the AP:
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U.N. Peacekeepers Reclaim Control
Of Somali Capital Checkpoint
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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Italian forces
with the U.N. peacekeeping alliance
moved through thousands of demonstra-
tors Friday as they regained streets
where they were ambushed July 2.
No shots were fired as Italian
tanks and armored cars resumed
positions at their checkpoint.
Elsewhere, the U.N. forces threw up
roadblocks to check vehicles and
pedestrians for weapons.
Pakistani troops manned at least
six barricades close to the U.N.
headquarters in the former U.S. Embassy
complex.
The Italian push involved hundreds
of troops backed by helicopter gunships
swooping overhead. It came after talks
with local elders.
One community leader who took part
said the Italians agreed to suspend
weapons searches in the vicinity as a
condition for their return to the
checkpoint.
During the day, thousands of
demonstrators gathered on the highway,
waving portraits of renegade warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid and chanting
''Down with USA.''
After a tense stand-off, Italian
Gen. Bruno Loi led the armored column
slowly through crowds, addressing
demonstrators on bullhorns.
''We have returned in peace so the
people can proceed with their work. We
are here to bring peace and security to
the country,'' Loi said in remarks in
Italian translated into Somali.
Aidid has been hunted by U.N.
forces since he was linked to ambushes
June 5 that killed 24 Pakistani
peacekeepers in Mogadishu.
Missile attacks on his strongholds
failed to flush him out and 10 more
peacekeepers, including the three
Italians, and scores of Somalis have
been killed in later attacks.
In another development Friday seen
as defiance against the U.N. military
push, gunmen fired on U.N. vehicles in
three separate incidents in southern
Mogadishu. An Italian soldier was hurt.
--
God made *me* in his image...(Gen. 1:26)
From uwvax!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!kautaj Fri Jul 16 08:22:23 CDT 1993
Article: 17097 of soc.culture.african
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From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Wise Man from the East)
Subject: South AfriKKKa: Govt-sponsored Inkatha Wrecking Havoc.
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Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 16:04:32 GMT
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>From the AP:
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Violence In Black Townships
Claims 13 Lives In S. Africa
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JOHANNESBURG - Thirteen blacks were
gunned down, including 10 in a township
massacre, police said Friday.
The African National Congress
blamed its arch rival, the conservative
Inkatha Freedom Party, for the shooting
in eastern Natal province.
The ANC said Inkatha supporters
were regularly bused into the township
to attack residents. Inkatha denied the
allegation.
The two parties have been fighting
for control of Natal since the
mid-1980s.
In a separate incident, three men
were killed when gunmen fired on
commuters at a railway station east of
Johannesburg Friday. The latest
killings bring the death toll to at
least 66 over the past week.
The latest wave of fighting broke
out July 2, the day black and white
parties announced a multiracial
election for April. The ballot would
mark the formal end of apartheid.
--
God made *me* in his image...(Gen. 1:26)
From uwvax!uwm.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!kautaj Fri Jul 16 08:24:31 CDT 1993
Article: 17112 of soc.culture.african
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From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Wise Man from the East)
Subject: TOGO: The Generals Giving Up??
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Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 19:30:04 GMT
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>From the AP:
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Military Ruler, Opposition Agree
To Presidential Vote In Togo
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -
Military rulers and opposition leaders
in Togo agreed Sunday to hold
presidential elections Aug. 25.
The vote is the first step to
resolve a power struggle that has
claimed hundreds of lives.
Clashes this year also led more
than 230,000 refugees to flee Togo's
capital, Lome, for the neighboring
countries of Benin and Ghana.
The president of Burkina Faso,
Blaise Compaore, mediated the talks.
Togo's president, Gen. Gnassingbe
Eyadema had set elections for July 18
without consulting pro-democracy
leaders, most of whom are in exile.
The opposition ordered a boycott,
saying the elections would be rigged to
ensure Eyadema won. Recent bomb attacks
have targeted politicians and soldiers
close to Eyadema.
Eyadema, who has ruled Togo since
1967, called the elections after a
2-year struggle with the opposition.
--
God made *me* in his image...(Gen. 1:26)
From uwvax!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!kautaj Fri Jul 16 08:24:38 CDT 1993
Article: 17113 of soc.culture.african
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From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Wise Man from the East)
Subject: South Afrika: Look at these govt-sponsored Uncle Toms!!
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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 19:33:25 GMT
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>From the AP:
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Zulu Leaders In South Africa
May Oppose Multiracial Vote
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JOHANNESBURG - Zulu leaders told
thousands of supporters Sunday that
they will oppose multiracial elections
unless they are guaranteed the Zulu
homeland would be preserved.
Their position underlined the
difficulty South Africa faces in
preparing for free elections amid
chronic political violence.
Much of the violence is between
Zulus and other blacks.
Negotiators have set April 27 as
the date for the nation's first
elections including the black majority,
which would formally end apartheid.
But Zulu groups at the negotiations
opposed setting the date until a
decision was made on the new form of
government.
They want partly autonomous federal
states, including a Zulu homeland, free
of domination by the central
government.
The African National Congress, the
nation's leading black group, seeks a
strong central government with the
power to redress the inequities of
apartheid.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief
minister of the KwaZulu homeland and
head of the Zulu-dominated Inkatha
Freedom Party, accused the ANC and the
white government of seeking to
eliminate KwaZulu.
''We will not negotiate ourselves
out of existence,'' said King Goodwill
Zwelithini, a ceremonial Zulu leader.
About 7 million of South Africa's
more than 30 million blacks are Zulu,
but the number that support Buthelezi's
position is unclear.
KwaZulu, with about 3.8 million
people comprises several non-contiguous
regions within Natal Province.
The ANC accuses Buthelezi of
blocking free political activity in
KwaZulu, where warfare between the two
groups has killed thousands of blacks
since the mid 1980s.
--
God made *me* in his image...(Gen. 1:26)
From uwvax!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!access.usask.ca!edison.usask.ca!f54oguocha Fri Jul 16 08:25:43 CDT 1993
Article: 17117 of soc.culture.african
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From: f54oguocha@edison.usask.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: SOCCER NEWS: SOME CONTINENTAL CUPS' Q-FINALISTS
Date: 11 JUL 93 22:43:27 GMT
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Description: Some Continental Cups' Quarter Finalists
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***This is a repost from r.s.s.*****
1 African Cup Winners' Cup (Mandela Cup)
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All the Qualifiers
==================
Motema Pembe(Zaire)
Cosmos(South Africa)
National SC(Egypt)
El Merreick(Sudan)
JSK(Algeria)
Stade Tunisien(Tunisia)
Africa Sports (Cote d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast)
El Kanemi(Nigeria)
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2. CAF Cup (Abiola Cup)
--------------------
All the Qualifiers
==================
Insurance FC(Ethiopia) spelling?
Simba FC (Tanzania)
Hellenic FC (South Africa)
U.S.M.H.(Algeria)
Zuminta(Nigeria)
Canon (Cameroun)
Mbilinga (Gabon)
and either Stella (Cote d'Ivoire) or Segui de Kayes(Mali)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
3. African Cup of Champions
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All the Qualifiers
==================
Zamealek(Egypt)
Nkana Red Devils(Zambia)
Asec(Cote D'Ivoire or Ivory Coast)
Asante Kotoko(Ghana)
Mouloudia(Algeria)
A.S. Sogara(Gabon)
Stationery Stores(Nigeria)
** Scores for Asante Kotoko and Kacm(Morocco) 2nd leg encounter
was 0 to 1 in favour of the latter team.
Cheers all soccer lovers!
Oguocha.
Source: Roko: roppong@sfu.ca, as obtained from
African Soccer Quarterly June-August 1993 edition