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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
Country profile: Zimbabwe | | The fortunes of Zimbabwe have for more than two decades been tied to President Robert Mugabe, the pro-independence campaigner who wrested control from a small white community and became the country's first black leader. Now, he presides over a nation whose economy is in tatters, where poverty and unemployment are endemic and political strife and repression commonplace. |
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Sunday, 13 May 2007 |
Country profile: Rwanda (from bbc) | | Rwanda experienced Africa's worst genocide in modern times, but the country's recovery was marred by its intervention in the conflict in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The country has been beset by ethnic tension associated with the traditionally unequal relationship between the dominant Tutsi minority and the majority Hutus. Although after 1959 the ethnic relationship was reversed, when civil war prompted around 200,000 Tutsis to flee to Burundi, lingering resentment led to periodic massacres of Tutsis. |
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Sunday, 13 May 2007 |
Country profile: Burundi (from bbc) | | Burundi, one of the world's poorest nations, is emerging from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war. Since independence in 1961, it has been plagued by tension between the dominant Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority and has been the scene of one of Africa's most intractable conflicts. It is now beginning to reap the dividends of a peace process. But it faces the formidable tasks of reviving a shattered economy and of forging national unity.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 May 2007 )
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