CLIPPINGS
LAGOS
Health Minister Ihechukwu Madubuike said in remarks reported in newspapers on
28 November that about two million people were infected with the Aids virus in
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 100 million people. Mr Maduduike
told a news conference in the capital Abuja on 27 November that the government
was planning ways to help Aids patients and also advised them to form
themselves into groups that would attract support from government and corporate
bodies.
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JOHANNESBURG
White extremists plotted to seize part of South Africa by force in the months
before the nation's first all-race election, a right-wing leader says. Retired
General Constand Viljoen, head of a right-wing faction that sits in Parliament
and has negotiated with President Nelson Mandela's government, disclosed some
details of the plan to take control of a portion of South Africa in 1994.
Gen Viljoen, speaking at a news conference on 28 November, said he called it
off when Mr Mandela promised him whites would get an autonomous territory after
the election. Mandela has repeatedly spoken of a military plot by white
extremists before the April 1994 vote that brought him to power.
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UNITED NATIONS
November 29 - UN AIDS researchers are starting to take a new approach to data,
revealing dramatic evidence that the AIDS epidemic in Africa has started to
reverse three decades of hard-won development gains.
Un aids research coordinator Stefano Bertozzi says that analysis has
traditionally focused on gross national product (GNP) figures which have tended
to play down the economic impact of the deadly Human Immunedeficiency Virus
(HIV) in AIDS-hit African countries. But when key development indicators such
as infant mortality and life expectancy are considered on a country-by-country
basis and related to AIDS statistics, a "dramatically different picture"
emerges, says Bertozzi.
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NEW YORK
Human Rights watch-Africa has appealed to the International Community and the
World Bank to continue pressing the Zambian government to improve its human
rights record. The rights group said unity in pressing the government to
improve human rights reforms is essential.
In a statement signed by Human Rights Watch-Africa Executive Director, Mr Peter
Takirambudde, the group said it was concerned at increasing government efforts
to undermine Non-Governmental Organisations and the judiciary which are
foundations of democracy.
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PARIS
France has deported 91 Africans and Indians under a crackdown on illegal
immigration, the Interior Ministry said on November 29. A charter plane left
Paris airport on November 28 evening with 38 Malians, 20 Senegalese and 13
Moroccans aboard, a ministry statement said. The deportees included 24 people
recently freed from jail as well as illegal immigrants. Another 20 Indian
illegal immigrants had been sent home on scheduled flights earlier this week
after officials uncovered a ring organising illegal immigration, it said. The
plane to the three African states was the 31st such charter since Interior
Minister Jean-Louis Debre took office in May 1995 pledging a tough line.
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