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ThfOfs Moines Rkc; isth i a Ai'Ki 8, 1 1 7A Mueller Sporting Goods World News Pool Tablet Darts 279-7000 5705HicfciwRl 20 million at risk in East Africa Relief officials cite drought, civil strife, say Sudan the worst off City 'Just Fell Apart' Rwanda capital falls into anarchy RWANDA'S ACTING PREMIER and at least 10 U.N. soldiers were killed in clashes in Rwanda's capital. The unrest in Kigali erupted after die presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a mysterious plane crash. where drought affected an estimated 18 million people. "We need to step in again as we did in 1992 and through a joint internationally coordinated response try to prevent famine occurring on a massive scale due to drought," she said.

of which $170 million was for the horn of Africa. Because of the dire conditions, that figure has been increased by $44 million recently, she said. She added that a strong response by donor countries helped avert starvation in 1992 in southern Africa, 20 Yrs. Locally Owned Steak Seafood Pasta Nightly Dinner Specials 4041 Urbandale Ave. In Beaverdale UGANDA Kigali RWANDA C' BURUNDlJr 60mHa TL Prr" Rwanda jp I mm U.N.

soldiers and the acting premier have been slain in the wake of the president's death in a plane crash. FW RK( ilSTKK WlKK SrRVICKS Nairobi, Kenya Rampaging troops killed Rwanda's acting pre-i mier and as many as 1 1 U.N. soldiers Thursday during fierce fighting touched off by the deaths of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in a suspicious plane crash. Reports from Rwanda were sketchy and it was not clear who controlled Kigali, the capital of the central African country. Amid the violence, three Cabinet ministers and two Rwandan human rights activists were reported abducted and 17 Jesuit Rwandan priests were reported killed.

The capital in neighboring Burundi was reported quiet. "A Lot of Guns" Residents and relief workers in-, side Kigali described a city that appears to have been given over to an-archy, with gangs of young men wielding clubs and machetes ram-; paging through streets, looking to settle old scores. "So far as we can see. it seems that Washington, D.C. (AP) The lives of more than 20 million people in 10 East African countries are at risk because of civil strife and drought, government relief officials said Thursday.

The country most affected, according to the officials, is Sudan, where the lives of about 6 million are threatened. The other countries with large numbers of people who could face severe malnutrition or perhaps starvation are Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Djibouti and Kenya. The ethnic strife in Rwanda and Burundi was underscored Wednesday when the presidents of both countries died when their plane was shot down as it arrived at the international airport in Rwanda. The two presidents were on their way home from a summit in Tanzania that was aimed at bringing peace to the two countries, which have been plagued by tribal warfare for decades. Lois Richards, a senior official of the Agency for International Development, said 1 1 million people in the 10-country region are affected by the drought, 7 million more are internally displaced and about 2.75 million have fled to neighboring countries.

Once donor countries are alerted to drought conditions in a given area, she said, it normally takes three months to arrange for delivery. "That's why it's important that we get these warnings as early as we can before there is mass famine," Richards told a news briefing. She said the United States had authorized $275 million in emergency food aid to African countries in need, Agathe Uwilingiyamana, "was sought out and murdered" by Rwandan security forces. Uwilingiyamana was apparently abducted by presidential guards shortly after she left her home. The soldiers disarmed her U.N.

guards, and she escaped and took refuge in a U.N. compound. U.N. peacekeepers tried to get armored vehicles to the compound, but they were held up by roadblocks. Under their rules of engagement, which allowed them to fire only in self-defense, the peacekeeping troops did not use force to get through.

Presidential guards broke into the compound, dragged Uwilingiyamana away and, according to U.N sources, killed her in front of U.N. volunteers. French and Belgian officials said military forces at their bases in central Africa had been placed on alert and were ready to move into Rwanda to protect the lives of expatriate workers as well as to bolster the U.N. peacekeeping contingent there. there are a lot of guns in a lot of hands and we don't really know who is giving orders to shoot at who and for what reason," said U.N.

spokesman Mortar Gueye. Kigali "just fell apart," said Canadian Maj. Brent Beardsley, a U.N. peacekeeper there. He said U.N.

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monitors said they could not confirm that. The U.N. soldiers who were found dead Thursday had been kidnapped as they tried to make their way to the site of the plane crash to determine its cause. Presidential guards are blamed for their abduction. Dominated by Hutus The 700 presidential guards are dominated by hard-liners from the majority Hutu ethnic group, which has been fighting minority Tutsis in both Rwanda and Burundi for decades.

Rwanda also has been torn by divisions among Hutus over a peace accord that the president had signed with Tutsi rebels last year. In Washington, President Clinton said Rwanda's acting prime minister, Ulundi, South Africa (AP) Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi stood defiant Thursday on the eve of his meeting with Nelson Mandela and President F.W. de Klerk, saying that neither force nor the threat of economic isolation would make him forgo a separate Zulu nation. He told foreign reporters in a rare interview that advocates of a federal system for South Africa in which territorial rights would be preserved under a central government were "elbowed out" of talks by the government and Mandela's African National Congress. "They knew we were not part of the consensus, and nevertheless they are prepared to trample over us through the barrel of a gun," Buthelezi said.

He showed no sign of wavering from his opposition to the upcoming elections, despite hundreds of troops miles from his parliament. If he car hold a peaceful election. The soldiers were sent to the Zulu homeland under a state of emergency declared last week by de Klerk to impose order, with the goal of enabling South Africa's first all-race election on April 26-28 to proceed in KwaZulu and the rest of Natal Province. De Klerk has invited Buthelezi, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Mandela to a summit, to be held at an undisclosed location today, in a last effort to reach a political solution before the election. Despite Buthelezi's opposition, the nation's chief election officer insisted that the region will take part in the voting.

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