As Zaïre's conflict spreads, Kampala is now fighting or backing rebels on three borders
The chaos in Zaïre was bound to spill across Uganda's dangerous western border and reignite some old rebellions. The latest flash-point is in Uganda's south-western corner, where it meets Zaïre and Rwanda amid wild and remote mountains. In November, rebels calling themselves the Allied Democratic Forces occupied the three Ugandan villages of Bwera, Mpondwe and Karambi; in September, they had seized a border post on the Rwandan frontier. They held the post for only a day, the towns for a week. Kampala says the fighters came over from Zaïre. Local people say the men who drove them back wore not Ugandan army uniforms but Rwandan army uniforms; Kampala denies this.
The Francophone summit was a pale shadow of times past and it achieved little on Zaïre
President Mobutu Sese Seko was detained elsewhere but everybody in Ouagadougou wanted to know what was happening to his country. The Rwandan and Zaïrean delegations had hardly tou...
As Zaïre's rebels capture mineral-rich lands, mining companies may have to pay up
The rebels keep advancing. One of their techniques is to announce the capture of a town before they attack it, causing panic and disorder among their enemies, as well as the reside...
