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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (6)	4/11/2003 9:01:26 PM
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War on Iraq: Mbeki issues grim warning; latest developments Staff Reporter 8 April 2003 SA president Thabo Mbeki says Africa could face the same fate as Iraq; battle rages for Baghdad; UN must have role after war; and Sudanese reported to be involved in fighting. SA president warns that same fate as in Iraq could face Africa PRETORIA: South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki says the war on Iraq without United Nations approval should fill African countries with unease. During the opening of a four-day conference on elections, democracy and governance in Africa, Mbeki says the prospect facing the people of Iraq should serve as sufficient warning that in future Africa might have others descending on them. Mbeki made his remarks on Iraq after imploring the gathering in Pretoria to take an honest look at how democracy was functioning on the continent. US and Iraqi troops engaged in fierce clashes inside Saddam Hussein's compound BAGHDAD: Reports say United States and Iraqi troops have been engaged in fierce clashes inside President Saddam Hussein's main Republican Palace compound in Baghdad. Witnesses say US tanks could be seen moving amid heavy exchanges of tank, artillery and gun fire. They said the exchange of fire was moving progressively along the Tigris river bank, northwards towards the al-Jumhuriya bridge. Earlier, US warplanes bombed a building in Baghdad where intelligence information indicated that Iraqi leaders including Saddam Hussein and his sons may have been staying. It was not known if anyone was killed. Meanwhile, reports claim that more than 120 coalition soldiers have been killed while about 15 are missing. Iraq has more than two thousand soldiers while more than a thousand civilians have been killed. Only UN can bring legitimacy to post-war Iraq says Annan NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council members have met behind closed doors to discuss the war in Iraq and plans for the post conflict situation in the country. The council remains divided on the issue, with the United States wanting to limit the U.N's role to humanitarian assistance and perhaps peacekeeping. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says only the world body can bring legitimacy to the work of rebuilding Iraq. Sudanese volunteers fighting in war against Iraq says minister KHARTOUM: Sudan's Foreign Minister, Mustafa Ismail, has admitted that Sudanese volunteers could be fighting alongside Iraqis against United States and British forces. Ismail told reporters that of the estimated six-thousand Sudanese working in Iraq before the war started last month, only a third had returned home. He said the other four-thousand are ones with political leanings, implying they were members of the national Baath party, which has links to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ruling party of the same name. The Sudanese minister said they may have preferred to stay in the country to back Iraqi forces in repulsing the aggression.