Gaddafi said new possibilities to resolve conflicts by democracy, in hotspots such as Nicaragua and Northern Ireland, meant that terrorism was no longer necessary. The last and only elections to date in the country were held in 1992. In that poll, Dos Santos' MPLA won a majority of seats in parliament, which it still controls, but neither Dos Santos nor rebel Unita leader Jonas Savimbi won a majority in the presidential vote, and Savimbi returned to armed struggle before a runoff could be held. The pair, Mariette and Estevan Olyn, were taken from their home last Friday by a man their mother apparently knew. Their bodies were found in a deserted house outside Karos.
Police suspect the killer used a panga to murder the children.
Police could not say why the mother only reported the incident on Monday - three days after the children were kidnapped. Jammeh, who was born into a Catholic family and converted to Islam in the mid-80s, promised however to guarantee that religious freedom would be respected. THE UN Security Council has urged Rwanda and Uganda to halt military offensives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to withdraw their forces from that country. But it stopped well short of reacting to a call from the government of DRC to slap an arms embargo and other sanctions on Rwanda and Uganda, which back rival rebel groups opposed to President Laurent Kabila. The three-island republic between Madagascar and east Africa was plunged into crisis when Anjouan island unilaterally declared its independence in August 1997.