Jonas Savimbi comes out of the bush. (International)

The Economist (US) | July 1, 1989 | Copyright

Jonas Savimbi comes out of the bush

WHEN communism seemed to be on the march in southern Africa, President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire let his country become a channel for American supplies to UNITA, the guerilla movement that has fought Angola's Marxist government since the country's independence in 1975. Now that communism is on the retreat, Mr Mobutu has turned peacemaker. On June 22nd, in the presence of 16 other African presidents gathered in his native village of Gbadolite, this old survivor got Angola's President Eduardo dos Santos to shake hands with UNITA's ...

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