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Article: Blurry borders: violent conflict threatens Zambia.(Africa)
- Article from:
- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The Great Lakes region of central Africa, one of the worlds most war-torn areas, faces ongoing violence incited by a turbulent political history of nearly 50 years. The worst episode of this conflict was the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when Hutu tribal members exterminated almost one million members of the Tutsi minority. Such overt belligerence has now subsided, but neighboring states remain alert for new outbreaks of violence. Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is among those leaders most concerned with the continuation of conflict, as hostilities threaten to erupt on his own soil.
Conflict in the Great Lakes region is prone to transcend and spread rapidly beyond ...