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Article: The new princes fall out: hopes of an African 'renaissance' begin to fade as the reformist regimes start to quarrel among themselves.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 23, 1998
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THE "new leaders" of Africa, the handful of rulers who were supposed to be cleaning up the continent and leading it into the 21st century, are falling out with one another. In the Horn, the rulers of Eritrea and Ethiopia, once close allies in overthrowing the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991, are exchanging fire across their common border and talking of "full-scale conflict". In Central Africa, the leaders of Uganda and Rwanda, which last year helped to launch Laurent Kabila to power in Congo (formerly Zaire), boycotted his regime's first birthday party last week. A pre-party summit of 16 heads of state had to be abruptly cancelled.
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