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Article: For Angola, now the hard part: Following a cease-fire signed earlier this month, Angola is beginning to reintegrate former rebels.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 29, 2002
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Byline: Nicole Itano Special to The Christian Science Monitor
LUANDA, ANGOLA -- Perhaps the most visible sign that peace has come to Angola are the trucks that have again begun winding between the country's far-flung towns and cities, along roads rarely passable during 27 years of civil war.
Filled with flour, clothing, and other goods for market, and precariously topped with refugees hoping to return home from exile in Angola's coastal cities, these rattling, smoke-belching trucks are linking the scattered pieces of this vast country together.
As Angola begins the slow process of rebuilding, one crucial test of the new peace will be whether ...