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25 Jan 2001
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Angola
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Africa Policy Outlook 2001

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By the end of the year 2000, a peace treaty between Ethiopia and Eritrea, peaceful transfers of power after elections in Senegal and Ghana, and continued growth of public debate about the future in almost every African country were among signs of advance in a year that was more than usually short of good news. Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa was estimated to climb to 2.7 percent for the year, up from 2.1 percent in 1999. Per capita income in the region south of the Sahara rose by an estimated two tenths of one percent. The World Bank and the
13 Feb 2000
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Mozambique
Mozambique: Floods Devastate South of the Country

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Africa Policy Information Center - February 13, 2000
Maputo - While Maputo continues without running water, various goods, such as green vegetables and bottled water, have already disappeared from store shelves. The outbreak of cholera and other epidemics is feared. Travel between Maputo and South Africa is possible again, by an emergency opening of the Maputo-Moamba section of the new Maputo-Witbank highway, which is still under construction.

The waters of the Incomati River yesterday covered National route 1 between Manhica and Xinavane and isolated the

18 Jan 2000
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Angola
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Africa: Policy Outlook 2000

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In 1999, the range of conflicts extending diagonally across Africa from Angola in the southwest to Ethiopia and Eritrea in the northeast continued to generate new humanitarian disasters and to pose formidable obstacles to hopes for continental advance. National elections were held in South Africa, Nigeria and thirteen other African countries, reinforcing democratic practices in large areas of the continent despite serious questions about the fairness of the proceedings in Nigeria and several other countries. The region with the largest number of elections
10 Jan 2000
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Angola
Angola: 'A Crude Awakening'

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Washington - How Angolan State corruption and the lack of oil company and banking transparency has contributed to Angola's humanitarian and development catastrophe.
Global Witness (1) today launched a campaign to expose the role of multinational corporations for the harmful way in which they operate in countries that are in, or emerging from conflict. Focusing on Angola, the report: 'A Crude Awakening-The Role of the Oil and Banking Industries in Angola's Civil War and the Plunder of State Assets', details the full extent of how Angola's long suffering population are being
08 Jan 2000
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Angola
New Chance for Peace in Angola

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APIC Policy Statement
After two failed peace processes in the 1990s, Angola has been at open war again for more than a year. Although the humanitarian disaster there is among the worst in the world, the conflict receives little international attention.

The United States bears a large share of the historical responsibility for the war and for turning a blind eye while peace accords collapsed. Developments within the last few months provide significant new opportunities for peace, giving Washington a chance

27 Jun 1999
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson

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Washington - Dear Madame High Commissioner: Your decision to visit Sierra Leone encourages us to hope that the United Nations, having the opportunity and the ability, will make some progress in protecting and promoting the human rights of the people of Sierra Leone.
The country has become the site of some of the worst human rights violations on the African continent since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, for which the international community has apologized for inaction. Yet we are extremely concerned that this lesson may be forgotten,
27 Jun 1999
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: New Testimonies on Mutilation, Rape of Civilians

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Africa Policy Information Center - Released June 27, 1999
New York, June 24, 1999 - Rebel forces in Sierra Leone systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during their January offensive, Human Rights Watch charged today.

In a report released on the eve of an important United Nations visit to Freetown, Human Rights Watch documented how entire families were gunned down in the street, children and adults had their limbs hacked off with machetes, and girls and young women were taken to rebel bases and sexually abused. Government forces and the Nigerian-led