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A WEEKLY DIGEST OF : AFRICAN AFFAIRS CHAO REBELS OPPOSE ' " Prrialls move freely in 'ufo-' fighting intensified last month, LIBYAN EXPANSION voyi throu8h the vast desert. Soviet statements have tried vfANl A - leader of the POUSARIO has launched to avoid a tat to either side. Chad 'totted Mauri-. v Contrary . to ; recent Front (FROUNAT) hasdis- t04" Including two attacks on Western press reprts from in closed that the rebel grout Is 1 Ca?ital Nouakcho,tt- telligence sources, reporters on receiving military aSalw common de- the spot in Somalia say there is from libva. but oonot the M0co troops no evidence of a large exodus Ubyan occupation of the-fSS f1' Bu! a h. -i,-. ta Mauritania s defense for Somalia . remains upset at " some timeThe recent airlift to au. 7..iil .. ..... U. vuciaic, nvwcvci, .was : lire first major open intervention by Morocco on Mauritanian territory. ;: ; j ' Many Mauritamans are dis- In an interview with te Monde, rebel chief Goukouni, the top man in FROUNAT'a northern army, says that Libva V r " j j. . . many mauiiioiiiuuauiuir. has givMj medkme and turbed by the increased Moroc- arms to the rebel force that military presence in their recently captured four govern. Morocc0's monarchy ment garrisons m the region. to the past laid claim to But since Libya four years ago Mauritania part of its jg. began moving troops into dom r . , 6 territory tradWonally claimed - n the wake of new hLC.f raofATn?ii POUSARIO raids and the art have drnded FROUNAT and val of Moroccans FROlTOAT.raS "nlined and shuffled both off w Cabinet and the top mili- Chad. government to fight off . . , J - i e the Libyans. Wen 'that councOiation K jJSSiJSft!0 effort failed, says Goukouni, rKOUNAT decided that it could not afford the "luxury of fighting two enemies at once," and so drew closer to Libya. Goukouni maintains, however, that the rebel move ment will "never agree to the Libyans remaining in . the (Aouzou) district." H After the final victory of the revolution," says Goukouni "Libya and the Chad revolu tionairies will try to find a better solution." According to unconfirmed reports, the Libyans first shore up the nation's defenses. DIPLOMACY FAILS, FIGHTING CONTINUES IN OG ADEN Somalia . : remains upset Soviet bloc aid to the Ethip pian military. The ability of the Ethio pian government' to reach a settlement or to pull off a reversal of .its military fortune, may be hampered by internal conflict, which is. likely to be exacerbated by re cent defeats. There has been increasing tension between the ruling military council (Dergue) and its civilian supporters: in ' the All Ethiopia Socialist Move ment (Me ei Sone) who have dominated the Political Office for Mass Organizational Affairs (POMOA). The Dergue has re portedly formed its own poli tical party, Seded, which is en gaged in a struggle for influ ence with Me 'ei Sone and other smaller .'- groups. Among . the arenas of conflict has been the newly-formed peasant militia; some of its troops are re portedly discontent with being sent into operation in the Ogaden rather than used in their home areas. If the present Dergue lea dership should fall, the results would be highly unpredictable, from the possibility of a re turn to a Western alignment to a resurgence of the left-wing Ethiopian People's Revolutio nary Party (EPRP). The EPRP has in the past been sympathe tic to demands for self-determination . Ethiopia's diverse nationalities; SWAPO SETS TERMS FOR NAMIBIA SETTLEMENT NEW YORK JAN Ex hausted Western diplomats and African guerrilla leaders ended four days of talks on the future I : PocJ'S; PcrspccJiVo g Editor's Note: Thit it the beginning of i series of weekly poems i John A. Dennis, Jr, a Ph.D. candidate in African history at Stuifr ' TOO WHITE lit ?- -- i 4 i . l- "; She said I was tod white -A dash of pepper . In $ galaxy of salt crystals. ': ,'ButJask. ' ,.: ; "Is it white to.thing. , -"v; ; To asbru '1 o challenge. To arouse the minds of black 1 . ; Folks cauglit up in-. Ghettoesof self- : Despair and indifference? Jo combat years of . -surrender and abandonment 'With! gleeful cheer: "You can, young man." To stand tall before the Babel-like buildings. Crawling freeways. Avalanche of miracle drugs An Overbearing bureaucrats Wfio don't give a damn? ' 6 push and pull my brothers Beyond the limits of cheap Mediocrity Into the arena of Genius. Never losing That cherished gift To feel 9. . f by P Wf?5 , t - X ' :1 ataucuit?i:t7 ' Tc""tr,ATr--i. terriujry," unless C.:y affct th security of tv.e country Tb f.ii of the company also include control over th presence of people fa! the tret, Accorilr.g to Article III of h9 contract, thf statt k bound, If requested by OT RAG, to evaculatt ill popu lation" not connected with tht company, The contrict ixplicfty states that Zaire cannot revoke the agreement, for whatever reason uflthe jrttr20pO. If genuine, these terms ire reminiscent of grant! of Afri can territory to private com PROMOTE GOOD RELATION - W S. Ambesudor P"f ariy yein of to the U Gov N. Andrew Young (L) meets with Jamilcin colonialism. .T-f 1 A -1 . . Gen. Florizel Glasspole (C) end Foreign Minister ..IT Ci P I D.4.H IB VA.,M I, n . 1 inn rrihKaBn WW DTOOIDIY 0 CO ' is over Tanzaniin or Zimbtan Zaire "grants to OTRAG the . airspace. General Nathaniel right of full use (jouissance in- Mbumba. leader of an leeralei" of the territory. The Mobutu guerrillas, told Afrt- ANJ Following the fai lure of an Organization of African Unity (OAU) media tion effort .intense fighting continued last week in south eastern Ethiopia; accompanied by contradictory communiques and charges from Ethiopian and Somali sources. At the weekend, the Western Somali Liberation moved into the contested area Front (WSLF) had claimed the of northern Chad in 1973 capture of JHiga, one of three after closing e deal with Chad s remaining Ethiopian strong former president, N'Garta holds in the Ogaden region. Tombalbaye, The alleged pact Ethiopian sources denied that ceded ; some 100,000 square Jijiga had fallen, but admitted miles of Chadian desert to that opposition forces held a Libya; which, was to pay $140 substantial portion of the million for the land by 1976. region. A military coup ousted Mediation efforts faltered Tombalbaye in 1975, and when Somalia walked out of officials of the Chad govern- a meeting in Gabon, demand- ment now assert that the ing that representatives of the Aouzou strip is rich in WSLF be admitted to the talks, minerals, possibly uranium, Ethiopia charges that the fight- wolfram, tungsten, copper, ing is a full-scale Somali M agreement to meet again in the tin and zinc. Chad has vasion, but Somalia claims that .' 1 1 " launched ' 'ilornatitf''actkin VSLF tistc& arC7!doiriir, dnhCTI '"egamst Libya at WXft&fy lngji zation of JArrKaIf, Unity, and nnaerndenr observers i neighboring Niger and Nigeria think that while the guerrillas are attempting to arbitrate. of the WSLF are a well-trained FROUNAT commander force, it is unlikely that the Goukouni insists thai there are present level of combat could no proven mineral desposits in be sustained without some in the area. volvement of regular Somali Libya, which has also forces. In the air along the bor annexed parts of northern der at least, Ethiopian and Niger and -reportedly south- Somali air force planes have eastern Algeria, asserted its clashed, new boundaries in a 1976 Ethiopia is so far having official map. Libya bases its little success in pressing back claim to the territories on a the attacks, and WSLF spokes 1935. treaty between persons have predicted Mussolini and France. , complete victory within . .. months, if not weeks. This " oi TciTck tV? 0PS desPewt niilitaiy situation is .tJS.T.7- leadin4 rauch speculation on MAURITANIA the next step possible for the AN Morocco recently military ; government or its rushed 600 troops to help de- backers. ' fend Zouerate, Mauritania after ; Somalia charged last week the vital iron mines there were that ni wre underway for attacked for the third time the UTiwai 0f several thou- ta J! m5nyu niX'""1 foreign troops of un guerrfllas of me POUSARIO specified, nationality to help Froni: - , " .'the Ethiopian military. Ethio- The Front is fating pia .:promptly denicd the against Moroccan and Mauri- charge - ' . tanian annexation of the: Such an accusation is diffi- Western Sahara, a former Uit to reconcUe with other apamsn coiony woeu io inc eportt coming fr0m the near future. An eight-person delegation representing SWAPO, the Namibian independence move ment, told the closed session that it would continue its war against South African rule of of the former German colony until South Africa withdraws in favor of a United Nations peacekeeping force. But the two sides issued a press state ment saying possibilities for a negotiated settlement do exist. President Sam Nujoma.. who led the SWAPO delegation told Africa News just before catching a plane for Lusaka. Zambia that a United Nations force would not have to be as large as the current South Afri can military presence of about 50,000 troops. He said the UN force would be there to gua rantee a ceasefire and to main tain law and order, not to oppress the people as the South Africans have done. In the first mention of a possible timetable, Nujoma withdrawal, and would agree to an additional six months period of campaigning before national elections. SWAPO was previously thought to be hold ing out for a longer transi tion period, but Numonia said SWAPO considers six months sufficient to guarantee elections free of South Afri can coercion. South Africa has been pressing for elections as soon as possible, while its administrative machinery is still intact. SWAPO ,. has now apparently agreed to the con tinued presence of a certain number of South African civil servants during the transition, but says a UN administrator must have overall exeuctive power, a point in which South Africa has been balking. Last month South Africa appointed its own ad ministrator, Judge Marthinus Steyn, represented as an im partial figure to oversee the transtion. ment' American negotiator Don McHenry, (who speaks for the Five Western participants (U. S., Canada, France. Germany. Great Britain) left for London after the talks to brief British Foreign Secretary Davidd Owen and U. S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. ZAIRE RENTS LAND FOR ROCKET TESTS AN) While refusing to confirm details of the con tract, a West German company has confirmed renting the eastern part of Zaire's Shaba province for a rocket testing range. The Paris-based magazine "Afrique-Asic" has published in its latest issue h copy of the contract signed between Zaire and OTRAG. (Orbital Trans port - und Raketen - Gesclls- chaff ) in March of 1976. According to the text pre sented there. Zaire grants irre vocable rights to full use of the territory until the year 2000 in exchange for an annual rent of S50 million. Occupying approximately the northeastern third of Shaba province, the OTRAG con cession is comparable in area to -all of West Germany. The com pany is reported to be develop ing a cheaper technology for launching satellites, intended to be competitive with U. S, technology. According to the contract. company is further authorized que-Asie that the use of the "to take all measures that ft areas as a launching site could deems necessary in the exer- prove a threat to iD of cise of its full use of the southern and central Africa. ft,' "- WE OFFER YOU COM PLETE INSURANCE COVERAGE Auto - Bu linen . Final Expcnci . Insured Saving i Account . Renter's . Annuities Homeowners - l ire Life - Liability . Hospitalization Mortgage - Cancer A. Death Burial B. 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