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19th December 1999

Vol 40 N0 23

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COMMONWEALTH

Postponing the new order

Commonwealth heads have suspended Pakistan's military regime but balked at tougher action against others - until the next summit

Efforts to advance good governance and human rights ended in a Commonwealth fudge at the Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Durban, South Africa on 12-15 November. Calls for radical action against member governments which suppress opposition movements, steal state funds and gaol journalists ende...

AFRICA | UNITED STATES

Presidential accounts

Between the banks and the ruling families, Africa's money runs out

MOROCCO

Broom sweeps Basri

The new King sacked his security chief - and may even have a new Sahara policy

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THE INSIDE VIEW

ZAMBIA

Chiluba and after

President Frederick Chiluba has had a surprisingly good six months. He brokered a seemingly impossible peace deal for the Democratic Republic of Congo, signed in July and now under serious threat. He played host, in October, to Thabo Mbeki, on the South African President's first state visit abroad. He has probably sold off (albeit cheaply) Zambia's best copper mines, which just might start foreign investment flowing again. And his ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) easily won two recent by-elections in Western province. 'I never knew power was so sweet', he admitted after his election in 1991. Like others before him, he may feel he deserves a third presidential term.

ZAMBIA

Gunmen at the gate

Four unknown gunmen at the gate of his house fired four shots and then disappeared. After a few hours in intensive care at the government hospital, he was pronounced dead. Major Wezi Kaunda, son of Zambia's former President Kenneth Kaunda, was brutally murdered on 4 November. Two people have so far been arrested; one of them said that he was ready to talk but only to the United Nations or to the United States Embassy in Lusaka. The Kaunda family has called in Scotland Yard. There are plenty of conspiracy theories.

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CÔTE D'IVOIRE

Bédié's flashpoint

Crisis has come in the struggle by President Henri Konan Bédié to exclude from next year's presidential election the recently retired Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Alassane Dramane Ouattara. Bédié...

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