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Article: Angola's endless war.(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 25, 1999
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The United Nations needs to recognise that a military victory is not in sight, and there is little to choose between the two sides
ANGOLANS have been at war more or less continuously since 1961, first against their colonial masters, the Portuguese, then against each other. The fighting is now intensifying, though most of the 200 or so people who die each day are children, blown up by landmines or killed by hunger or preventable disease. Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, recently declared Angola the worst place in the world for children to grow up in. Unfortunately, the UN itself is not making matters much better.
The blame for this never-ending ...