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OAU warns
against over
population
B African leaders seek ways to
produce enough food for an
additional 20 million people
every year.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
(AP) Without resources and commitment to
changes, Africa will scon be overpopulated
.with most of its inhabitants hungry, malnour
ished or sick, the Organization of African Unity
said Monday.
Under current growth rates, Africa’s popu
lation could reach 850 million in three years,
and climb to the staggering figure of 1.6 billion
by the 2005, officials told an OAU population
conference.
Some African countries — like Rwanda or
.Burundi — are among the most densely popu
lated countries in the world. The density and
_unequal distribution of land have often con
tributed to instability, wars and political un
‘rest in parts of Africa.
: Thefour-day conference, which opened Mon
~day, challenged delegates to find ways to pro
-'duce enough food for an additional 20 million
~people every year; to create 200 million addi
tional productive jobs and to educate 137 mil
lion children.
~ “Ileave it to your imagination to picture the
scontinent teeming with 1.6 billion people who
~would be mostly underfed, malnourished and
«diseased if appropriate timely solutions are not
identified and implemented,” OAU assistant
.secretary-general, Vijay Makhan said.
.. Makhan identified declining infant mortal
ity and large migrations as among the factors
“fueling population growth.
© Population in Africa currently stands at 758
“million, with eastern Africa the most densely
“populated region.
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South African President Nelson Mandela, center, has emerged as a diplomatic
force on the continent. He is shown at a conference with former Zairian Presi
dent Mobutu Sese Seko, left, and rebel leader Laurent-Desire Kabila, right,
weeks before Mobutu was ousted from power (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)
AS FRENCH PREPARE TO PULL OUT
Explosions erupt near
Brazzaville airport
By Alexandra Zavis
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo
The Republic of Congo’s warring sides tried
toarrange a peace summit while French troops
began to depart from the capital today, saying
their job of rescuing foreigners was over.
France’s announcement Sunday that it
would withdraw its troops was followed by
some of the fiercest fighting in days between
forces of President Pascal Lissouba and his
rival, Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso.
The two factions were believed to be jockey
ing for position to capture the airport, now
controlled by French forces. Mortar and auto
matic rifle fire were heard all night and this
morning.
Delegates from both sides began talks today
in Libreville, Gabon, to lay the groundwork for
a summit between the two leaders. The presi
dents of Gabon, the Central African Republic
and Chad and diplomats from the United Na
tions, the European Union and France were
observing the talks,
France, the former colonial power, has said
it will support peacemaking efforts but will
end its military mission as planned. It was
expected to take a week to withdraw the 1,200
French soldiers now in this Central African
nation.
French troops packed computers and furni-
ture into crates today, and the first flight
carrying “non-essential” military equipment
and personnel left for Gabon and Chad. Offi
cialssaid other flights would leave every hour.
“It is an achievement to have evacuated
close to 6,000 people in very difficult condi
tions,” Col. Henri Pelissiér, a French army
spokesman, said today. “We are also leaving
with some sadness because we lost one soldier
... and had six others injured. And sadness,
too, to leave a country in a civil war.
“We hope that the mediation that is taking
place in Libreville is successful so that war
does not break out again when we leave,
resultingin new massacres,” Pelissier added.
Fighting erupted June 5 when Lissouba
sent government forces to disarm Sassou-
Nguesso’s private militia. He said he acted to
avert violence before the July 27 presidential
election here.
Sassou-Nguesso, who ran the country as a
dictator for a decade before Lissouba won an
election, claimed the president sparked the
clashestohavean excuse todelay the vote and
keep power. He is running against Lissouba
in this election.
Lissouba, speaking on French television,
appealed to his country’s former colonial ruler
to leave troops in Brazzaville, afraid that a
French pullout might lead to the collapse of
his government.
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POLICE/COURTS
New testimony ordered
in appeal by Abu-Jamal
By Jenmifer Brown
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
PHILADELPHIA
A Philadelphia court will hear
testimony from a former FBI in
formant who says corrupt police
tainted a 1982 murdertrial of death
row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Pamela Jenkins, 31, will testify
June 26 that police strong-armed
a former prostitute into testifying
that she saw Abu-Jamal holding a
gun when Philadelphia police of
ficer Daniel Faulkner was shot in
December 1981. ,
The state Supreme Court or
dered the new hearing May 30 as
part of Abu-Jamal’s 500-page ap
peal of his 1982 death sentence.
He was scheduled to die in August
1995.
“This is even more credible evi
dence ... that Mumia Abu-Jamal
was a target of the police depart
ment,” defense attorney Leonard
Weinglass said Monday.
Ms. Jenkins, who has never tes
tified on Abu-Jamal’s behalf,
helped gather evidence and testify
before a grand jury during the
two-year police corruption probe
thatled tocharges against 12 Phila
delphia officers, including her
former boyfriend.
“Cynthia White told me that she
was afraid of the police and that
the police were trying to get her to
say something about the shoot
ing,” Ms. Jenkins said in state
ments filed by defense attorneys
March 10. Ms. White is the only
witness who claimed to see Abu-
Jamal holding a gun at the loca
tion where Faulkner was killed.
“(She) also told me that she had
been threatened with her life by a
police officer because of the Jamal
case,” Ms. Jenkins said.
Ms. Jenkins also said her old
boyfriend, former police officer
Tom Ryan, and another officer
pressured her to say she had seen
the shooting, even though she had
not been near the scene. She re
fused.
Ms. Jenkins has not said Ms.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: Defense
attorneys claim witnesses
against him lied.
White lied, only that police intimi
dated Ms. White into testifying,
Weinglass said.
“We maintain very strongly that
Cynthia White testified falsely. We
believe Pamela Jenkins provides
the motivation,” Weinglass said.
The hearing will be held before
Common Pleas Court Judge Albert
Sabo, the original trial judge, de
spite defense attorneys claims he
is biased.
Abu-Jamal, 43, a teen-age mem
ber of the Black Panthers who
became a radio journalist, has at
tracted international support from
death-row opponents, celebrities
and politicians who say he was
unfairly convicted by a racist pros
ecution and a biased judge.
Last year, another former pros
titute recanted her original testi
mony against Abu-Jamal, but Sabo
refused to allow the new state
ment into evidence in the appeal
because it he said it was unbeliev
able and irrelevant.
Abu-Jamal’s attorneys said Ms.
Jenkins’ statements came to them
in January, when they visited her
in a Camden, N.J., jail. Weinglass
refused to disclose Ms. Jenkins’
whereabouts Monday or to explain
why she was in jail then.
During the recent police corrup
tion probe, Ms. Jenkins helped free
a convicted murderer by admit
ting police paid her to testify dur
ing the 1988 trial. She also admit
ted lying under oath for an ac
cused officer in his arbitration
hearing bec?usg he paid her -
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