Many Conflicts Throughout Africa
There have recently been numerous civil wars and conflicts going in Africa, some of which are still going on, including
- Angola, which has seen an estimated 500,000 people killed since 1989 and an estimated 3 million refugees. It is also being torn apart due to resources such as diamonds and offshore oil, with various factions fighting for these prizes, supported by multinational corporations and other governments. See also the following:
- A Rough Trade; The Role of Companies and Governments in the Angolan Conflict, by Global Witness, December 1998. (Their web site has other reports on related issues as well.)
- The Zambian Connection: Ukrainian plane came to deliver UNITA diamonds? from the Monitor for Human Rights and Development, Issue 101, April 7-13 2000, also reports on the Diamond and Zambia connection.
- ANGOLA: Allegations of embezzlement of ‘petrodollars’, by IRIN, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 26 March 2002
Some of these nations are also involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the DRC is also involved in some of these civil wars.
No less than 28 Sub-Saharan African states have been at war since 1980, as pointed out by international development organization, ID21.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.†We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
— Bishop Desmond Tutu
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