WAR AND PEACE
Algeria
A bomb killed 12 people and wounded many others in a car market near the
Algerian capital on 16 January, 1997. The explosion ripped through the market,
30 Km south of Algiers.
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ANGOLA
Britain's Princess Diana earned herself the name "princess of peace" on 15
January, 1997 when she met with war victims in the poorest quarters of Angola's
capital Luanda. She promised to send toys to comfort the children.
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
On January 19, 1997 African mediators met army mutineers in the Central African
Republic to discuss their role under a peace plan to end the impoverished
nation's third army mutiny in under a year. The draft called for a national
unity government in the former French colony.
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EGYPT
On 18 January, 1997 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that Ethiopia and
Eritrea were not involved in fighting along Sudan's eastern border. He cited
the problem as only existing amongst the Sudanese and that Ethiopia and Eritrea
were not involved.
The Sudanese opposition in Cairo said their troops in eastern Sudan had killed
150 government soldiers in the Blue Nile province on 19 January, 1997.
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LIBERIA
A team of west African monitors of Liberia's peace process said on 18 January,
1997 that its rival militias were disarming too slowly. They indicated that
too few fighters had disarmed and that the quality and quantity of weapons
handed in was too poor.
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NIGER
Several hundred women staged a sit-in on 19 January, 1997 outside a police
barracks in Niger's capital Niamey to demand the release of opposition
militants arrested after turbulent protests.
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NIGERIA
On 14 January, 1997 at least 20 people including a police sergeant were killed
in a dispute between rivals over a traditional Nigerian title. Several houses
were set on fire and property worth millions destroyed in the region of Ekori.
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RWANDA
On 19 January, 1997 a group of about 10 gunmen killed three Spanish aid workers
and injured several Rwandese in an assault on humanitarian posts in north-
western Rwanda. The three Spaniards were working for a Spanish unit of Doctors
of the world.
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SOUTH AFRICA
On 15 January, 1997 President Nelson Mandela rejected pressure from the United
States to end a possible deal to sell south African weapons to Syria saying
that there was not going to be any country in the world dictating to South
Africa.
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