Africa 2003

Pros and Cons, Here and There



Charles Taylor -- Liberia

Liberians Take Stand For Democracy Editorial (Con)
http://www.theperspective.org/stand.html

A Liberian Warlord Wins Election (Mid/Pro)
Wednesday, July 23, 1997 -- ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROVIA, Liberia - Seven years ago, fighters loyal to warlord Charles Taylor killed five of Samukah Corneh's brothers as they tried to flee Liberia at the start of its civil war. Yet when he went to vote for a president Saturday, Corneh firmly pressed his inky thumb onto the ballot space next to Taylor's picture.
http://www.blackvoices.com/news/97/07/23/story03.html

His Time is Up - Charles Taylor (Con) Sunday Times (Johannesburg) June 8, 2003
Posted to the web June 8, 2003
http://allafrica.com/stories/200306080138.html

Charles Taylor -- the man / Liberian History lite (Mid/Pro)
http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0098TaylorCharles.asp?pic=none

Liberian rebels pushed from capital (Mid/Pro)
Friday, March 28, 2003 Posted: 1817 GMT ( 2:17 AM HKT)
MONROVIA, Liberia (Reuters) -- Troops loyal to Liberian President Charles Taylor have pushed back rebels from the outskirts of the capital Monrovia but are still battling on three fronts, officials said Friday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/03/28/liberia.reut/

Charles Taylor, Indicted -- Thursday, June 5, 2003 (Con)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15179-2003Jun4.html?nav=hptoc_eo

Diamond Hunters Fuel Africa's Brutal Wars (Mid/Alternative)
By James Rupert -- Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 16, 1999;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/oct99/sierra16.htm

Mercenaries; Messiahs of Terror (Mid/Alternative)
By Issa A. Mansaray, ExpoTime (Freetown) -- 8 June 2001
Vienna, Austria - The 'Mercs' as they are known for short, prefer to be called 'military consultants,' or 'military advisors' as in the case of the South African and United Kingdom 'Executive Outcomes' (EO). Even with all the colourful names they give to themselves, they are still considered as 'hired soldiers' or 'contract soldiers' that kill for gain in countries of conflicts out of their boundaries. The misgiving about mercenaries is that they sometimes help to fuel conflicts and can easily switch sides to the highest bidder in any war zone.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/061.html

Liberia: Churches Call for Peace Support, 06/01/2003 (Mid/Alternative)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Urgent_Action/apic060103.html

Gunrunners (Mid/Alternative)
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sierraleone/breakingnews.html

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.
(Mid/Alternative)
http://64.239.13.64/free/politics/blood_sparkle.html

Global Connections -- Liberia (Mid/Comprehensive)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/educators/uspolicy/lesson1.html


The Ivory Coast

Cote d'Ivoire Crisis: WANEP Policy Briefs Update - December 3, 2002
http://www.wanep.org/future_scenarios_briefs_update.htm


Mugabe Pros and Cons

Zimbabwe's Mugabe and White Farmers (Pro)
Dr. Chika A. Onyeani is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of The African Sun Times,
based in East Orange, NJ.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/10_zimbabwe.html

Mugabe Is Latest Obstacle To Africa's Advancement (Con)
By Gregory Simpkins -- Vice President -- Foundation for Democracy in Africa
Institute for Democracy in Africa -- St. Thomas University
16400 NW 32nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33054
http://democracy-africa.org/mugabe.htm

MUGABE THE HYPOCRITE (Con)
by Tafadzwa Choto ISO Zimbawe Tuesday September 03, 2002
Expose Mugabe As A Hypocrite!
NO TO PRIVATISATION -- NO TO CAPITALISM
Mugabe��s Hypocrisy should be exposed!
http://zimbabwe.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/416.php

Mugging Mugabe (Pro) -- by Stephen Gowans -- February 11, 2002
http://www.swans.com/library/art8/gowans21.html

Mugabe attacks US, UK (Pro)
25/02/2003 08:19 - (SA) Kuala Lumpur - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe launched a blistering attack on the United States and Britain on Tuesday, accusing them of creating a world where powerful Big Brother states imposed their will on weaker ones.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1324874,00.html

Mugabe Accuses The Church Of Double Standards In Africa (Pro)
By Lewis Machipisa, IPS -- 8 December 1998
HARARE, Dec 8 (IPS) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Tuesday thanked the Church for its contributions in ending colonialism in Africa, but also reminded it of its "shameful" support for colonialism and apartheid.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/090.html

Mugabe: The Arguments Pro and Con (Mid)
http://www.southafrica.com/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=2528

Zimbabwe: black land in white hands (Mid)
http://observatori.barcelona2004.org/observatorio/mostrarDossier_i.htm?num_dossier=207


Raw Materials Looting Behind African "Peace" (Mid/Alternative)
By: Uwe Friesecke -- Commentary -- http://www.a2zafrica.com/commentary.php
To many political observers, the deals that were signed in Africa to end two of the most devastating regional conflicts, came as a surprise. Breakthroughs were declared for negotiations on Sudan on July 20 in Kenya's town of Machakos, and one week later for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in South Africa's capital, Pretoria...

http://www.geocities.com/46-sheng/02/MotherAfrica.html


The Congo

The Congo and the Roots of Genocide (and other news)
http://www.geocities.com/homeostatictruths/030602.html


Other ways and means of seeing eye to eye

Seeing Groups--and the World--in a New Way
http://www.aqp.org/pub/nfc/sample.html



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