HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mtufruti)
Subject: UPI: Somali relief effort 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:35:50 GMT


	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- U.S. and private agencies have begun a risky
relief effort in Somalia designed to provide food and medical care to a
nation in which violent death is common and more than a quarter of the
children under five are starving, officials said Tuesday.
	Andrew Natsios, a lead official for the U.S. Agency for International
Development relief program said the United States, the European
Community and private organizations have provided more than 120,000
metric tons of relief supplies to the withering East African nation this
year.
	But he said much of it is held hostage in Mogadishu by price-gouging
armed factions.
	And there is a dire need for the supplies -- AID estimates that three-
fourths of Somali children five years of age or younger and one-fourth
of the 6 million adults there will die within months from malnutrition
or disease.
	``The problem is we're not facing a civil war with two sides or even
three sides or even four sides, we're facing anarchy,'' Natsios said at
the State Department.
	``There's no discipline left in the society to control this kind of
violence.
	``There is no government at all. There is no rebel movement at all.
There is simply factions that are armed. Young teenage boys with guns.''
	Somalia has been in the throws of a clan-based war since guerilla
forces of the United Somali Congress last January ousted President
Mohammed Siad Barre, who ruled the country for 21 years. Fighting
intensified in November when the Congress split into opposing factions.
	Officials said that in an effort to circumvent warlords, thugs and
profiteers in Mogadishu, the Defense Department and private relief
agencies will deliver supplies to areas outside the capital. AID
personnel will attempt to drive food prices down by manipulating market
dynamics.
	The Pentagon, which will airlift more than 145,000 metric tons of
food and medical supplies stockpiled in Kenya, has already deployed 100
flight operations and communications personnel in Mombassa.
	Bob Wolthius, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for global
affairs, said another 50 specialists, four C-141 Starlifters, eight C-
130 Hercules transport aircraft, and a number of security personnel will
be in Mombassa soon.
	The Air Force will carry a United Nations force of 500 Pakistani
peacekeepers to insure the delivery and distribution of relief shipments
in Mogadishu, Wolthius said.
	``This is a very difficult and somewhat dangerous operational
environment for both the civilians and DOD people within Somalia,''
Wolthius said.
	An additional 145,000 metric tons of humanitarian assistance will be
shipped to Somalia next year, Natsios said.
	AID experts will attempt to drive down food prices, which have
skyrocketed by 500 percent, by selling directly to Somali merchants in
areas outside of Mogadishu, Natsios said.
	A market flooded with reasonably priced food will force profiteers
that want to stay in businees to drop the cost of their hoarded goods,
he said.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us (Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: IPS: RWANDA: GOVERNMENT AND REBELS AGREE
Originator: barnhart@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:41:03 GMT

Area: Africa, southern
Title: RWANDA: GOVERNMENT AND REBELS AGREE ON RULE OF LAW


arusha, tanzania, aug 18 (ips) -- rwanda's government and the
rebel rwandan patriotic front (rpf) tuesday signed a protocol to
restore the rule of law in the strife-torn central african
state.

the agreement climaxed nine-days of negotiations between the
two sides in a bid to end a 22-month civil war that has flushed
out of the country thousands of refugees and left more than
300,000 people displaced.

political negotiations on sharing power between the
government in kigali, rwanda's capital, and the rpf are
scheduled to start here sep. 7. creation of a broad-based
government that reflects national unity will be the focus of the
next round of talks.

a final peace agreement that would usher in a broad-based
government to replace the transitional administration, now in
office, is expected to be signed oct. 10, a tanzanian official
at the talks told ips.

ami mpungwe, director for africa and the middle east in
tanzania's ministry of foreign affairs, said the agreement would
provide for multiparty elections and integration of rpf
guerrillas into the rwandan army.

the current transitional administration in kigali was set up
in february by rwandan president juvenal habyarimana as a move
toward political reform.

further protocols are to be signed by both parties before
oct. 10 to allow voluntary repatriation of rwandan refugees
scattered in neighbouring countries.

accusing habyarimana of perpetrating abuses of human rights
in a country he has ruled for 19 years, the rpf representatives
had demanded that he should step down to allow the investigation
of his record.

the rpf draws its support largely from the tutsi minority
ethnic group, traditional overlords of the hutu people
accounting for 85 percent of rwanda's 7.5 million population.

''there is hope for peace to return to rwanda'', the
country's ambassador to uganda, claver kanyarushoke, told ips at
the end of the talks. rpf's director of information and
documentation, pasteur bizimungu was equally hopeful.

the warring parties were brought to the negotiating table by
the organisation of african unity whose assistant secretary
general tobias mapuranga remarked at the conclusion of the
talks: ''we are happy that we are through with the second hurdle
(of the rwandan conflict)''. (end/ips/pc/ar/92)




-- 
Aaron (Barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us) -- posting from Evanston, Illinois
From: ckna@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Somalia, list of UN telephone numbers etc
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:15:29 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Following the interest shown by members of this group, and requests for more
UN numbers, I've found in my university library a list of permanent missions
to the UN published by the organisation itself. Unfortunately, the publication
is dated MAY 1984. Anyone who has an updated edition can correct any 
descrepancies in the information below. Obvoiusly given the date of publication
news countries from example the former USSR and Yugoslavia are not listed. In
addition, the list below is highly selective and do not include faxe numbers.

OAU delegate  (212) 697-8333
Algria        (212) 750-1960 1, 2
Angola        (212) 752 - 4612, 3
Benin         (212) 249-6014 or (212) 249-6127
Botswana      (212) 759-6587
Cameroon      (212) 794-2295
Canada        (212) 751-5600
Cape Verde    (212) 472-0333
Central African
Republic      (212)689-6195
Chad          (212) 986-0980  or (212) 490-2072
China         (212) 787-3838  or (212) 870-0300
Congo         (212) 744-7840, 1, 2
Cuba          (212) 689-7215, 6, 7
Egypt         (212) 879-6300
Ethiopia      (212) 421-1830
France        (212) 308-5700
Gabon         (212) 867-3100
Gambia        (212) 752-6213, 4, 5
Germany       (212) 949-9200
Ghana         (212) 832-1300
Guinea        (212) 486-9170, 1, 2
Guinea-Bissau (212) 661-3977, 8, 9
Italy         (212) 486-9191
Ivory Coast   (212) 988-3930
Japan         (212) 421-9580
Kenya         (212) 421-4740
Lesotho       (212) 421-7543, 4, 5
Liberia       (212) 687-1033
Madagascar    (212) 986-9491
Malawi        (212) 755-8470
Mali          (212) 737-4150, 1
Mauritania    (212) 697-2490
Mauritius     (212) 949-0190, 1
Netherlands   (212) 697-5547
Nigeria       (212) 953-9130
Senegal       (212) 947-7355, 6, 7
Sierra Leone  (212) 570-0030, 1, 2, 3, 4
-----> SOMALIA (212) 687-9877,8 9
Sweden        (212) 751-5900
Togo          (212) 490-3455,6
Uganda        (212) 949-0110
USSR (now Russia)  (212) 861-4900, 1, 2, 3, 4
U K           (212) 752-8586
U S A         (212) 826-4524
Zaire         (212) 754-1966
Zambia        (212) 758-1110
Zimbabwe      (212) 980-9511 or (212) 980-5084
  

As I indicated earlier this list is highly selective. If anyone is interested
in a country not indicated on the list I'll be glad to provide the number on the ne
the network.

Newsreports indicate that something is being done, at long last. But with a
human being dying each minute my guess is that by the time you finish reading
this piece at least three people would have died of hunger and thirst. That is
the tragedy in Somalia today. As a point of interest I've highlighted Somalia's
number on the list just to indicate that it still has a seat at the UN.

It will be nice to know what action is going on at youe end as Dorothy and 
Peter have been doing.


Christian
Halifax, Canada
From: barnhart@netcom.com (Aaron Barnhart)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: SUNET faxes from peacent, IGC
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:39:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.gp!nv5#.barnhart
Reply-To: barnhart@netcom.com
Organization: Netcom

dmorse@igc.apc.org (Dorothy Morse) writes:



>Now as to whether the fax is scotfree when going from IGC, I don't
>know--there could be some IGC charges.  Haven't found that out yet.

Believe me, IGC charges for *everything* that is gatewayed.


-- 
Aaron (Barnhart@netcom.com) -- posting from Evanston, Illinois
From: lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,sanet.talk.politics
Subject: Re: The ANC and the SACP
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:18:46 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Aug12.145104.23195@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> gavan@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Gavan Tredoux) writes:

>: ANC organisation must be understood within historical context, the
>: laws forbidding inter-racial political organisation, etc. So it is not
>: obviously an ethnic organisation, as you seem to imply.

>It is patently an ethnic organization, by history, association, support,
>leadership and context. As ethnic as they come. First it's black
>(phenotype the ethnic marker), moreover it's Xhosa dominated (you
>might care to examine the ethnic composition of the National exec
>and ponder why they're weaker in Natal than anywhere else. In fact they're
>a Xhosa-led coalition with skewed support, just like any other ethnic
>organization.

Back in the 50s, the SACP consisted mostly of Jews.  By
your criteria, the SACP was an ethnic party, based on Jewish
ethnicity.  Funny how it's also overwhelmingly black now.


>They don't mobilize on the basis of Xhosa ethnicity, but
>they're Xhosa by history and association, and that's what is important.

Why is that important?  Every grass roots political party starts out
based in a particular community.  As the SACP example shows, a party with a
truly non-racial ideology will end up attracting the support of those
whose interests it would represent, totally apart from race.

And you readily admit that the ANC does not have a racialist or
tribalist agenda (in fact that was the entire basis of their split
with the PAC).  So what's your point?

>Racially, they have minute white support, and little coloured and Indian.
>Willy nilly, they're ethnic prisoners.

Gavan, maybe they're really a class based party.  After all, they have
virtually no support among the economic elites of SA either.  Or could
it be that there's just a slight correlation between skin color and
economic interests?

-- 
larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com) 
_(*#&)#*&%)@(*^%_!*&%^!)*&#+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*&#%)*&^%#+&
The past is not dead, it's not even past.   - Wm. Faulkner
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:18 PDT
Subject: Re: Fax for Somalia....CORRECTION
Nf-ID: #R:antbh.713788008@strix:1697261303:cdp:1471700061:000:203
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dmorse    Aug 14 22:18:00 1992


Here are two new fax numbers to try:

Bureau of African Affairs, Herman Jay Cohen, Asst. Secy. 202-647-6301

Bureau of East African Affairs, Mark Johnson, director  202-647-0810

Hope this will do it:_)

Newsgroups: apc.reg.safrica,soc.culture.african,sanet.talk.politics
From: femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony)
Subject: Re: CRAP FROM UNIV. CAPE TOWN
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:15:46 GMT

In article <bakc.99.714225749@giraffe.ru.ac.za> bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN) writes:
>>From: femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony)
>>Subject: Re: CRAP FROM UNIV. CAPE TOWN
>>Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:45:30 GMT
>
>Oufemi G Anthony writes:
>
>>All unbiased and unbigoted readers of this net should have realized by now
>>that Gavan and his cohorts are a subgroup within this newsgroup. They
>>have "redneck" conversations between themselves and it is best to leave
>>them in their world of fantasy where white domination will continue
>>forever. They are in fact, members of the same "broederbond"; to use the
>>language of the oppressor. It is an unfortunate fact that this medium of
>>communication, i.e. over the net allows even rednecks to express their
>>views, much to the distaste of the majority of enlightened users of this
>>newsgroup. It is best to leave these throwbacks and advocates of a racist
>>ideaology that caused misery to millions of S.Africans to themselves. 
>>Just ignore their postings...
>
>>Femi.
>
>
>>P.S. Just when will you join the AWB, Gavan, or are you already a member?
>>     Maybe you can take over from Terre Blanche, he was "caught with his
>>     pants down !!"
>>     
>>     "Viva Afrikans, Viva le broederbond" - Just so you can masturbate and
>>     salivate on it, my dear Gavan.
>
>
>I wonder what constructive contributions.......

Constructive contributions? Tell that to Gavan and Co.

>1.
>Tasteless language,

Tasteless? I'm sure many people enjoyed it. 

>           and
>2.
>Vulgar personal remarks

Well, no apologies for having offended you with my "vulgar personal
remarks". I reserve the right to express my opinions about certain
individuals on the net.

>           make to 
>
>3.
>Any intelligent debate  

Discussion on this newsgroup had long become a fiasco a long time ago due to
the activities of Gavan and his lynch-mob. Have you noticed that hardly
any  non-white S. Africans or non-white Africans for that matter now
post to this newsgroup? Many Africans have formed their own mailing
lists. Mostpeople prefer to leave a bunch of ignorami with racist views
to themselves.

>           or
>
>4.
>The credibility of the poster???

I couldn't care less about my credibility with a bunch of privileged,
diehard apartheid stooges. After all, their time is coming to an end.


>(Rhetorical question, naturally)
>
>Cheers,
>Keith


Cheers to you as well, 
Keith.


Femi.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony)
Subject: Postings on Islamic and Arabic issues.
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:23:07 GMT


Hi, there, my arab friends. I and I'm sure many other users of this
newsgroup would appreciate it very much if you would refrain from
postings articles that do not deal with the African continent
specifically, for example your postings on Bosnia-Hercegovina and
Afghanistan etc. I know that you might argue that most of North Africa
is arab, and also muslim, but surely there are other newsgroups, such
as soc.culture.arabic and soc.religion.islam, that you can post to.

Thanx,
Femi.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: llk@kepler.unh.edu (Local Genius)
Subject: Re: Fax for Somalia....CORRECTION
Organization: Department of Mathematics
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:12:14 GMT

In article <antbh.713819294@strix> antbh@strix.udac.uu.se (Bernhard Helander) writes:
>
>>It appears there might still be a problem with the State Dept number.
>>Either it is very busy, they don't want to receive messages, or the
>>number is incorrect. I have been getting "unsuccessful" messages.
>
>I got through earlier this week on that number, but I suspect that they have
>now simply unplugged their fax. I have tried to find another number but 
>it is not that easy to track down US fax numbers from Sweden. Maybe you could
>do that?
>:-)
I will try (I know you meant it for a joke but I'll see if I can get anything).

>Bernhard
>
>-- 
>*****************************************************************************
>*                                  *                                        *
>* Bernhard Helander                * Telephone: +46-18-182289 (office)      *
>* Dept of Cultural Anthropology    *            +46-18-303448 (home)        *
>* University of Uppsala            *                                        *
>* Tradgardsgatan 18                * Fax:       +46-18-151160               *
>* S-753 09 Uppsala                 *                                        *
>* Sweden                           * E-mail: Bernhard.Helander@antro.uu.se  *                                  
>*                                  *                                        *
>*****************************************************************************

lk(with the man in the yellow hat)
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 16:26:42 EDT
From: <ADEYINKA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Life in Cameroon

   I was perusing through the network news with a friend from cameroon when we
saw your mail. To say the least, we were not too impressed by the content which
 we think was very empty. We think you should offer more useful information abo
ut the country than you did.
    .... By the way, we hope you know the president, His excellency, Paul Biya
lost his wife Jeanne Irene Biya two weeks ago. And that General Asso was kicked
out of his post by the president for threatening to publish a book that could
implicate the president in some ways. And that is news!!!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: kautaj@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (kauta)
Subject: Re: new leaf
Keywords: idiot
Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:05:59 GMT

In article <g90s9316.713629183@alpha.ru.ac.za> g91h7029@alpha.ru.ac.za (Wayne Humphries) writes:

>I am utterly amazed. Only TWO people e-mailed me
>about my naughty bad-boy behaviour. 

Hardly surprising...You are just a tiny particle of dust in the apartheid
whirlwind. What you need is professional help. Unfortunately, it doesn't
come free on the net...

-- 
Internet: kautaj@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
Bitnet:   kautaj@iubacs.bitnet
Uucp:     kautaj@iubacs.uucp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,sanet.talk.politics,apc.reg.safrica
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:24 PDT
Subject: Somalian security situation
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1471700070:000:1543
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dmorse    Aug 18 18:24:00 1992


From the Dallas Morning News, Aug. 14, by Keith Richburg 

CRITICS ASSAIL WORLD'S NEGLECT OF THE SUFFERING IN SOMALIA
THEY NOTE CONCERN FOR BOSNIA, SEE DOUBLE STANDARD


(The important part of this article, in my opinion, is the following paragraph,
which should help people to understand that food aid can be sent even
though security is not perfect, and that to at least some degree, lack of
security has been used as a pretext for not sending food.)

SAFER THAN BOSNIA
   Mr. Sahnoun [UN special envoy to Somalia] noted in irony how a UN-brokered
ceasefire has generally held in Mogadishu since March, making it safer for
relief operatios than in embattled Bosnia-Herzegovina, where UN peacekeepers
have come under constant attack. *Although Somalia's clans have clashed
frequently, they have nothing like the heavy weapons of the former Yugoslav
army now being used in the Balkans* [emphasis added by dmorse--please
remember that 500 airlifts a week are going to former Yugoslavia, and *none*
into Somalia yet--just the promised one on Aug. 24 and one this week from
France--and remember that the delay in Somalia is supposed to have been
caused by security reasons.]
     "People are really starving and the security conditions are better than
in Yugosalvia," Mr. Sahnoun said.
    Asked about the reason for the discrepancy, he paused and fumbled briefly\
for the correct diplomatic answer.  "Maybe it's because it's in Europe,
I don't know," he said. "Maybe it's their neighbor's problem...And the media."


                           

Newsgroups: sanet.talk.politics,soc.culture.african
From: pauln@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Nash)
Subject: Re: Freedom of Expression
Organization: Infotek, CSIR
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 10:57:11 GMT

Thus spake spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse):

> I seem to recall you mentioned kill files recently. Could you
> perhaps advise me, how I can in NN as my newsreader put
> your address in a kill file?

Read an article by Gavan, and press 'K'.  In the dialogue that follows
choose 'k' for kill, and then select user name & permanent.
-- 
 ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---
 Paul Nash                                         paul@frcs.Alt.ZA
 Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa         +27-12-8413050

     "God isn't dead, He's just metabolically challenged" -- me
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:24 PDT
Subject: Re: SOMALIA:  immediate action need
Nf-ID: #R:inews.intel.com:12901:cdp:1471700062:000:662
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dmorse    Aug 14 22:24:00 1992


I mailed you things today--leaflets, fax forms, articles especially suitable
for churches.  

If you can get two or three people to call the State Department and the UN
each day, or one a day, or every other day, it counts.

I also think we should try faxing and phoning our local TV stations, radio
stations, and newspapers--especially since these are local calls and the
expense is not so great.

Line up four or five people and call in a row, one after the other.
Fax in a row, one after the other.

The main thing is to keep the pressure up on the "big guys" who ave the
ability to move the planes and the food with a word, if they are willing to do it.
it.
From: kaseko@venus.its.uci.edu (Mohamed Kaseko)
Subject: Re: IPS:News
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Reply-To: kaseko@venus.its.uci.edu (Mohamed Kaseko)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:10:32 GMT

Thanks for the good work, W.S.
I look forward to hearing from you again.
Goodluck and take care.

kaseko
From: scott@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Scott Hazelhurst)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: ANC's Torture Chief Named
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:46:31 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, University of the Witwatersrand


From the Weekly Mail 14 August 1992
The African National Congress' inquiry into the treatment of detainees
in its camps in exile has uncovered shicking abuses, for which it
blames a senior headquarters official.
   Ex-security chief Mzwai Piliso, a former national executive
member, has been directly implicated in some of the assaults on
prisoners.
   The inquiry was appointed late last year by the ANC president
Nelson Mandela, following widely published allegations of
torture in exile camps.
  The report, to be submitted to Mandela next year is expected
to clear military leaders Chris Hani and Joe Modise of responsibility
for abuses. The evidence emerged that they had "cleaned up" the
camps after taking over from Piliso.

--

----Scott Hazelhurst-------------------------scott@concave.cs.wits.ac.za---
Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand
2050 Wits, South Africa         phone 27(11)716-3309 fax 27(11)403-1926